When you love your friends a lot you make them a painting of their favorite god. In red, black and white. This one’s for my friend whose Picasso’s biography I still use as coaster.
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Showing posts with label portrait. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
hiding from the sun
They say that when an artist paints a portrait it is never really a portrait of a person in the picture, but of an artist himself. True. But I also think the best thing is when he paints someone who is really close to him. Then it becomes hard to distinguish where one person ends and the other one begins. For, and that is also true, to become you, you first had to let others be a part of you. This is why this portrait of my sister doesn’t say much about me or her. Instead, what it really does - it tells about us.
Acrylic on canvas, 40x30cm
Monday, June 06, 2011
head in the clouds, feet on the ground - a free spirit
This is a portrait of a close friend of mine that I made for her birthday. And it really is true that if I could’ve said what she is like in words, I wouldn’t have had a reason to paint her. So, to sum up all that I know about her, this is who she is, and not in my words but in her own colors.
Acrylic on canvas, 40x30cm
new year's prayer
Music can save your life. Once upon a time a soft voice of Jeff Buckley woke me up, said you’re not dead yet. And then it healed and it nurtured. And I didn’t even know how hungry I was. Or that I was wounded. I even wanted to send him a note saying it is eternal life after all. But I think that would've been stupid. Anyways, I painted this portrait of him instead and decided I want “New Year's Prayer “to play at my funeral. I just hope I won’t wait till then to stand behind my electric chair, dancing.
Acrylic on canvas, 30x40cm
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