Marina Kulik's News

Every year, a Dutch well known artist makes a design for ‘the Artbag’. That is a shoppingbag that is produced and sold in high volumes and the proceeds go to ‘Stop Aids Now!’, an organisation which fights aids in third world countries and especially focuses on women, adolescents and children. This year, Marina Kulik has created the design – a big, multi colour rose…

The portrait is finished, I’m waiting for the ‘verdict’ of my client. Always very exciting especially this time because I made the background much simpler than planned. I hope she likes it…

I have now as extra input the portrait of Chris’ daughter Lucie. As it turns out there is so much resemblance! It is amazing what you see when you truly dive into another person… The mouth, the look in their eyes, the stillness around them. They are beautiful, the little girl and her dad.

Reconstruction portraits are portraits that are made without the possibility of a life session. Based on pictures and descriptions. Working from photo’s is not at all bad by the way: they are often spontaneous, they are very patient, they don’t move and they are strictly two-dimensional.

I’m working on a new ‘reconstruction’ portrait. From time to time that comes on my path. Before I report on the new project, here a post about one I did in 2010, signed sealed and delivered…