De kop is eraf! Or, the head is off, in Dunglish. Let me begin with a little post of one of the assignments I did previous year. My neighbours went to Cambodia earlier, and made a print of one of the many faces of a temple: the Bayon temple in Angkor. Though, when they moved to a larger appartment, they wanted this image to be larger, with the same characteristic looks. So, they asked me to paint it. I made this painting with acrylics on canvas (1mx1.29m).
I always paint with a freehand sketch (so no grid, no beamer/tracer or something like that), which I make with a light shade of paint I paint with. Years ago I sketched with charcoal, but the particles of the coal mix with the paint, so the colours can get a bit grayish.
Sketch
Because I paint by a reference - in this case a real detailed one - I can paint piece by piece, once the setup is allright. When I work from a live model I work completely differently (I might post another blog of live modelpainting another time).
First layer
My neighbours loved the serenity which I tried to capture in the painting.
Making progress of the face
And after 10-13 hours of work: the endresult of the Face of the Temple
And now the painting hangs on their wall, in the centre of the livingroom. Every time I step in their house it takes me a bit by surprise to see something I put my effort and always a bit of my love, in a place I don't see regularly.
For the diehards a movie of the entire progress (please don't look at my clothes) (but if you look good you can see the painting has been made during two seasons, I went from breezy dresses to warm sweaters in 10 minutes, haha), if I unravelled the deep wells of movie-URLs.
Movie!
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