No matter what medium I use, I always seem to end up breaking up the surface of the work with dots of paint or small pen strokes. This is not a technique I deliberately developed, but something that happened over time. When painting, I work with oil on canvas or panel, and always with an underpainting. My drawings on acrylic glass are done in reverse on the back of the glass, and the finished work is mounted approx. 4 cm off the wall, so the drawing casts a shadow on the wall, creating a double image.
This painting went through different stages (Feb. 2017). It started as a simple sketch of a bawling child, but took on a new meaning for me with the situation of the refugees trying to get to safety in rickety boats with their children. The portrait is fictional; for inspiration I used 9 different faces.
Different stages of development: sketch (2014), early version of the oil painting (2015), and the final version (2017).