Modesty is a character trait or behaviour in which people portray themselves or their own merits as smaller than they are.
This expressionistic colourful portrait is built up with layers; a drawing of a girl's face, pieces of previously made original acrylic paintings and pieces of collages.
The acrylic paintings are mainly street art and pop art-like artworks, which are used as background for a painting. I first take photos of these to save them for digital editing. The same goes for the collage artworks. All the layers are brought together in photoshop and edited to the final digital result; a totally new artwork in the form of a portrait.
I remembered that as a young girl I so much liked to cut images from magazines to paste them into school agendas, scrapbooks and even on my bedroom door. Add to this the fascination I always had for walls filled with old posters, flaking paint, scrappy billboards.. Read more…