Poppy, a colourful masterpiece by Arjen Roos

About "Poppy, a colourful masterpiece"

by Arjen Roos

About the artwork

Sometimes a work comes along that completely takes you on an adventure as an artist. That is exactly what happened to me with this work.

The inspiration came from a portrait I saw on the internet. It was a soft and sweet portrait of a girl combined with some abstract shapes. The work that really appealed to me turned out to be made by artificial intelligence.
I saw this as a challenge to create the work in my own style. However, a soft and sweet portrait soon became a completely different kind of work in which I combined the chequered motif of the top with a background painted with a block brush. By adding the painting also over the girl, the sweet atmosphere fell away and gave way to a more grunge or chunky portrait. The beautiful red curls made me turn to flowers pretty quickly, which could easily have been done given the colourful motif of the top, but the red flowers soon turned into red poppies.

By now, I had been working on the piece for weeks and a true masterpiece was emerging in my own eyes. A work that I fell more and more in love with and which started to tell its own story. layer after layer of details were added, sometimes for the story and sometimes just because it's beautiful.
I affectionately called her Poppy after the English name for the poppy and even though the end result cannot be compared to the original sculpture I had seen, it also has something soft and sweet. A delicate poppy that dies as soon as it is plucked, its young beauty captured in a moment. I hope this work will also inspire and enchant viewers, reminding them of the beauty and fragility of life. Poppy is a work I cherish and have worked on with great love, and I am happy to share it with others.