The beginning

After finalizing a painting a serious number of ideas pop-up regarding creating a new painting. Although I usually work on 1 or 2 painting simultaniously ( 1 at home and 1 at course) this process is always painfull. This blog will show you the creative process in creating my current painting, called "The Exit".

What to choose.....?  During my last holiday I spend a week in the lovely city of Side (Turkye) enjovying sun,, Turkish food and the tremendous number of ruines over there. I am more or less addicted to ruines, my imagination can go wild thinking that 2.000 years ago somebody walked the same stones I do. I made a serious number of photos, some really with the idea to use these as examples for paintings.

Here is a picture of the old entrance gate of Side. I really like the this very big gate (approx 15 meters high!). The build-in and broken insert gate makes it dramatic,

I decide to use this concept in my new painting as background but still in dbout what to use in front.

One of my ideas was to make a slightly different portrait of a female preferablly somebody I know like my daughter (No Dad! Not again!!) or my wife or sister.

I already started to draw some concepts but was not completely satisfied untill.......