Description: Self portrait, feeling sad

Story: Sadness is a burden you carry within yourself. It casts a shadow on every joy.

I’m in search lately for new ways to make expressive portraits. Portraits that go beyond resemblance and also express and convey a strong emotion to the viewer. Apart from its color palette and style the sheer physical size is an important quality of such a portrait: large images tend to have far more impact. To circumvent the limitations that digital pixel based artworks have, I’ve created this portrait as a (infinitely) scalable vector graphic. This means it can be scaled without losing its razor sharp definition.

The edition on sale here has a size of 14000 x 14000 pixels, which is ample to print in high quality - 300 dpi - on 46”x 46” (120 x 120 cm). The file is in JPG-format.

This portrait was created first as a painting in acryl on canvas, then digitized and converted into vector graphics. The vector graphics have been intensively processed to achieve the final result.