Painting commissions
Paintings take you into visually seductive worlds that tell a story or convey feeling. It has been scientifically proven that looking at art boosts your thinking skills and lowers anxiety and depression. A personalized painting is also a beautiful statement to enhance your home or business and can be a great conversation topic when having visitors or clients over.
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I create realistic and fantasy paintings on commission based on any topic, story or photo you like. You can choose between an analogue acrylic painting or a digitally painted high quality artprint. Digital paintings start at €200, acrylic paintings at €350. The prize depends on the size and complexity of the painting. Feel free to contact me for a no-obligation conversation. We will talk about your ideas and wishes. Afterwards I will send you a personalized offer.
Fantasy painting
I specialize in creating surrealistic fantasy paintings. These are a great way to depict stories and topics that can’t be photographed. You can request any topic or scene you like. I base the style of the artwork on your wishes, story and / or purpose of the painting.
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On the left a commission to paint a Kenku warlock and a Raven queen. These are two fantasy characters from the story based game ‘Dungeons & Dragons’. Because it is a story based game there is no fixed image of what the characters should look like. This made it a lovely challenge to depict the clients vision of what the characters would look like.
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The digital painting on the right I made as a practice to experiment with colours and patterns.
Photo to painting artist
Besides fantasy artwork you can hire me to create a painting based on photos you send me. Think about pictures of your family, pet, favourite flowers, amazing vacation or any other (royalty-free) picture you like. A painting is a great way to visually enhance your home and commemorate great moments.
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On the right a painting that combines the two sweet pet pictures you see below.
Editorial painting
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Painting can be a form of editorial illustration. Editorial paintings help express the idea and overall mood of a text. They give an impression of the topics and visually seduce the reader.
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On the left an example of a panorama painting commission for a scientific text about kissing. You can take a look at my editorial illustration page to find out more about this service.
Digital painting
I often paint digitally and base the style on the topic or story and your preferences. As you can see in my portfolio I am able to work in various styles like realistic, semi-realistic and cartoon. What my versatile work has in common is the spatial appearance due to my fascination for light and shadow. I don’t like artworks that look ‘flat’ and I always try to give my 2D work a bit of a tree dimensional feeling.
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I mainly paint in Adobe Photoshop but for clean cartoony artwork I use Adobe Illustrator. The advantage of creating digital art is that adjustments are easier to make. Think about adjusting colors, scaling or removing visual elements and changing proportions.
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If you like artworks with a more analogue look. There are great digital brushes to make a digital painting look like it is painted on canvas. For example the artwork on the right I made of a close up photo of my violin.
Acrylic paintings
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Even though digital paintings can be made to look much like an analogue painting nowadays, it won’t have the beautiful textures and strokes of a hand painted artwork. For my acrylic paintings I work with System3 paint. This is good quality paint that has excellent colour strength, permanence and lightfastness. Because of this the colours stay beautiful for a long time (a lot longer than print ink for example).
Painting analogue takes some more time than painting digitally. Because of this and the high quality materials I use this service costs a bit more, but the end result will be worth it!
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On the left an experimental collage painting inspired by the magazine images I incorparated in it. 'Woman and secret door'.