little portrait of her. When it was finished I put it onĀ Facebook and got some really nice
comments. My friend Sanneke Griepink, who is an artist too, replied: āHey you can do portraits
too!ā And somehow that little remark made me think. Yes, I can do portraits too, in fact it was
my favourite thing to do as a teenager, draw my family, actors, popstarsā¦ When did I quit again?
Oh right, right after I finished art academy.
Somehow doing portraits became a bad thing.
In the years after that I did one portrait I really liked doing and then right after one I really
hated and never finished. I ended up passing on the commission to a befriended artist and never
doing a portrait again.
As it turns out I donāt hate doing portraits, I just need to stay close to a way of working that fits
me. Right now Iām working on a portrait of my brother and very much enjoying the process.
Itās not quite ready yet but still having fun and already looking forward to the next
portraitproject.
