Friday, October 21, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
My Favorite Painter
When my father was here last summer I requested him a work of art. Yes, I do that a lot ! I tell him exactly what I am dreaming of and somehow he translates my wishes into oil on canvas.
No último verão quando meu pai esteve por aqui ele já veio sabendo da minha encomenda: uma pintura para a casa nova. Eu contei exatamente o que estava buscando e ele me propôs uma pintura com o tema: "floresta esmeralda-tropical-com pássaros em movimento".
For one of the living rooms I was dreaming of a dense tropical jungle. There are not many pieces of furniture there: a TV and a big couch, and a big vase with a plant. And want to keep it simple like that. So I wanted to add some art on the wall. I discussed with daddy and my husband about the possibilities, the time it would take (hey, we anted to enjoy our vacations too!), the size, the theme. Above all: a wanted much green on it. We ended up finding a reasonably big canvas on the shop 4Art in Zaandam. My father in action. He and I found the price of (oil) painting ok when you compare to what you have to pay for in Brazil. He used oil from the brand Van Gogh because he is rather used to work with it (than acrylic). But the price of canvases in Holland he found expensive.
Above: a photo of a tucan we have found on the net. It gives perfect inspiration to what my father painted (below).
It is important to search for photos so that yo can check the proportions...
Muito importante ter fotos como referência para a proporção...
I also wanted to add more movement "escaping" from the painting. I think the group of birds below works good on that.
And I also wanted some silhouettes...
Eu também pedi para meu pai acrescentar algumas silhuetas...
The jungle my father built up on the painting is not a real jungle. I mean, the different species of trees and plants come from different tropical forests in the world: Guatemala, Borneo, Congo, Amazon.
A floresta da pintura é uma invenção, um mosaico e não existe na vida real. As diferentes espécies de plantas e árvores vem de lugares como Guatemala, Borneo, Congo e Amazonas.
My father has also "hidden" some insects on the green area of painting, such as a ladybug, a butterfly and a grasshopper.
Meu pai também escondeu na pintura uma joaninha, uma borboleta e um grilo. Para treinar e testar o olho não só das crianças mas dos adultos também. Sacumé.... ver se estão espertas.
Wondering how the painting has become ? Voilà !
Querem saber como ficou o resultado final da pintura ?
It's resting on a garden table for a while... The result is exactly what I had asked to my father: a landscape with lots of shades of green, with different levels of depth and splashes of colour here and there. I LOVE big tropical flowers and birds on canvases - and this is a recurring theme in my home. I think it suits perfeclty in my Dutch home - hey, not so Dutch, after all ! It reminds everyone of my origins: the jungle, haha !
A pintura teve que ficar secando horizontalmente por um mês. E enquanto aguarda um tempo apropriado para ser pendurada ela descansa numa mesa velha. O resultado é exatamente o que imaginei e pedi ao meu pai: uma pasiagem com domínio do verde, com diferentes níveis de profundidade e uns toques de cor viva aqui e ali. Adoro pássaros e flores tropicais pintados a óleo, tenho outras pinturas com esse tema pela casa. Se eu fosse rycah iria ter muito mais, cheia de pinturas com folhas de bananeira, carambola, mico leão dourado, jaca, haha ! Bom, a minha casa holandesa fica bem mais interessante assim, com uma florestinha lembrando a todos as origens da dona.
Most photos you see here are from the book "Jungles", Frans Lanting, Taschen.
Others we have found on the internet.
A maioria das fotos nesse post são do livro Jungles, Frans Lanting, editora Taschen.
As outras fotos achamos na internet.
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