Drawing/painting in graphite pencil and oil on glass!
After showing some of my older works, I thought, its time for something more current again. When I do one of my Hinterglas pieces, I normally always start with the painting and then build a unique frame for it.
This time it was a little different. I had found this "gothic" looking fragment in an antique store and right away thought, this would make a great frame for one of my paintings.
It took a while, but eventually I had a decent idea. It followed a general concept that has been an underlying theme of my work for a long time, which I call the venusmachine. The combination of the sensuous female energy with the more technical male aspects, often depicted in some kind of machinery. I'm also fascinated by E.T.A. Hoffmann's novels about automated, mechanical dolls, he thought up some 200 years ago!
First major step is of course to make the drawing, graphite pencil on glass.. reversed, as explained here
I colored it only in brownish sepia tones, to give it the vintage look I wanted, to go with the frame.
photo by me of my own artwork. The original is graphite pencil and oil on reverse side of glass, as explained in this post on Hintreglas