Muse to all the great pre-raphaelite painters. Here a copy of a truly lovely painting by Dante Gabriel Rosetti. I’ll never live up to that standard, so instead I took the opportunity to play with a lot of colors

10x10cm. Trying to do something other than large and medium portrait style paintings.

It started out as a portrait of Holly Hunter based on a screencap from ‘The Piano’. However the context and background – rain and mud splatters all over didn’t work in the painting. It just came off as odd and unexplained. So I left it in a fairly unfinished state, gave her a nice face mask and painted the background a violent shade of orange. And now I like the thing much better. So; it must be done.

This is probably my best work. Or at least the most effortless looking.

This is my first real attempt at at portrait. So why not go for my all time hero; Alan Moore. What could possibly go wrong!!

It does look very different from the photo it was based on. And yet, I like it a lot. This I even managed to sell back in 2013