12/4/2023 0 Comments Paint butt and sit on canvas![]() ![]() ![]() A naked body is the most natural thing in the world. I don't believe that painting a woman's body is sexualizing her. I also paint big arms, big bellies, big shoulders, big ankles, depending on what I feel looks cool on the particular painting. I do paint big breasts and big butts, but that comes with the territory of painting plus size women. I try, on the contrary, to paint strong confident women. I also don't draw faces or just hints of it because I feel that it allows any woman to identify to the painting.Īnother criticism I get is the "sexualisation of women" which I don't really understand. For me, the point of these paintings is to shine a light on curvy or plus sized women, so I emphasize that with exaggeration. It's a style that is actually used by a lot of illustrators and sculptors. The truth is that it is just a style born from the pursuit of pushing the contrast of shapes. Some people see it as a statement from me that women's brains or minds are insignificant. The most common is the misinterpretation of the small faceless heads. I do get a lot of criticism, always along the same lines. What are some of the pushbacks you’ve received from viewers who question your intentions of painting full figured women? Some of my other influences, for these paintings in particular, are very varied….from African tribal art, to 1940's Soviet propaganda art with a bit of contemporary sculptors like Botero, or Carla Dijs, amongst many others. That's also where I learned the importance of balance between shapes, straight and curvy lines to get to an "appealing" design. That's where I got the importance of simple but clear shapes because when you have to do hundreds of drawings for just a few minutes of animation, you had better not have a complex and very detailed character. So I was, of course, very influenced by animation from the start. I studied character design for animation at a school called "Gobelins" in Paris. My design style (which is something that is always evolving) comes from my influences. At first, I really did those drawings just for me, but when I started posting them about 7 years ago I quickly started receiving messages from women thanking me for painting women with their body types and telling me that they made them feel better about themselves. I’ve always liked curvy women, and I’ve always liked to draw them. The subject matter came naturally to be honest. How did you come about your design style and your subject matter? I like the contrast of very simple shapes in the silhouette and the impression of volume that comes from painting with those brushes. I use a brush that has a bit of texture to get that acrylic or pastel feel to it. The first part is a very rough sketch trying to simplify the silhouette as much as I can, working with the shapes to get to a nice balance of curves and straight lines, and push the contrast between big and small shapes as much as I can. I always use a reference because I'm not great with colors and light, so what I do is look for a picture of a model that I feel would look cool as a painting and work from that. I'm only really good at three things animating 2D characters which is my actual job, making kids (of which I have a lot.well 3, but during lockdown that does feel like a lot), and growing vegetables.įor my paintings I use Photoshop and a Cintiq (basically a big screen on which you draw directly with a digital pen). I never paint on canvas with traditional mediums because I'm actually not that good a painter. Are your paintings digital or actually painted on canvas? We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.There is a graphic yet painterly feel to your work. All of our prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers. Pixels is one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints. Stretched canvas prints look beautiful with or without frames. All stretched canvases ship within 3 - 4 business days and arrive "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails. Your image gets printed on one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Also available with black sides, whites sides, and 5/8" stretcher bars.īring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Corner Detail: Stretched canvas print with 1.5" stretcher bars and mirrored image sides. ![]()
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