Extasi

The worktitle is Jumping Man.   The latest thing I did was to add some backlight effects.  I  have left the effect soft to not overdo it.   As I told before the image of the jumping man I found on the internet. The dark parts in the mans body are influenced by the underpainting.   The background is my  own invention.  As you can see I have also included goldleaf in the painting.

The underpainting is complete different. The man I painted in a earth-green like color. This is the classical  italian way of doing that. There it is called verdaccio  . I did used different colors then the suggested  black, yellow and white.  The french used more a greylike color.    
        I first put gold leaf on the canvas. Only then I started doing the underpainting.  This works very well and I get nice sharp divisions between the gold leaf and the paint.

The painting is 115 x 85 cm.  It is done on linen with handmade oil paint....

Fruits and Flesh

Roy Lichtenstein has ever stayed in my mind also. He is a representative of Pop Art.  A lot of his images are like comic drawings.  And I like reading comics. So why not start to paint my own comic paintings...  One can take anything and transform it into a comic style.

The painting is 75 x 65 cm.  Handmade oilpaint on linen.

After Van Gogh

My brother asked me to make a Van Gogh.  Did he mend a copy or in the style of Van Gogh. I choose the last.

I looked at the images of Van Gogh's work.  Particularly his flower paintings which he made in Saint-Remy around 1890. And I looked in my Foto-Archive if I had some usable flower images to transform into a Van Gogh. I found this one.

As you can see I left a lot away. 

The painting was done on a wooden panel with handmade colors. Measures  60,8 cm x 40 cm.

Here are the examples of Van Gogh. 1890 "Wild Roses".     It is not one of his best paintings.

And this one is  1890  "Still Life Pink Roses"