Artist creates animal portraits on wooden canvases
While I’ve previously posted about paintings on tree logs that mirror their surroundings, Netherlands-based illustrator and tattoo artist Kirsten Roodbergen has created lovely black and white animal portraits on slices of wood from cross-sectioned tree trunks.
These unconventional canvases make the base for her acrylic and copic marker creations. Kirsten enjoys making emotive black-and-white illustrations of nocturnal creatures like wolves, owls and bats. And each of her hand-crafted animal portraits are beautifully framed by the irregularly-shaped raw tree bark. Apart from drawing on wooden slices, she has also used wooden mannequin hands as the basis for larger illustrations.
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Kirsten is skilled in several types of artistic media and she regularly tattoos similarly-themed designs onto clients. It’s clear that this creative endeavour has influenced her works on wood with the dark outlines and style of shading that’s popular in a traditional tattoo.
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Kirsten’s animal portraits and other original artworks are all for sale in her Etsy shop and would look great on your wall at home.
Source: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/kirsten-roodbergen-wood-slice-painting
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