Digital Fabric Swatch for Blue, 2021

Blue is a reinterpretation and appreciation of historical paintings through a modern lens with digital tools (Procreate).

Inspired by “The Blue Boy”, Thomas Gainsborough, 1770. The Blue Boy is a masterpiece of the Rococo period. The Blue Boy attained the status as the most expensive painting in the world and was seen as a symbol of cultural heritage and opulence.

The Blue Boy stands contrapposto, an authoritative position signaling a self-defined masculine role.