The Girl with the Pearl Earring, originally painted by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, around 1665-1667.
In this 2024 version digitally produced by me, I changed the colours of her clothes and gave her a beautiful headdress of flowers.
The flowers are taken from vintage botanical images.
It was winter when I made this artwork, Christmas had just passed and spring was still far away. I wanted to make something not too summery, not too wintery, not too light, not too dark, a bit of cheerfulness now that the Christmas tree has disappeared from the living room and I hope I succeeded.
I love her like this, don't you?
The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is, don't you think? ;-)
I mainly make surrealist artworks and collages, because in those artstyles I can so wonderfully unleash my creativity and unbridled..
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