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Juried Member FT professional, '06 finalist Portrait Society of Canada, '07 finalist Artist's Mag,'07 finalist Int'al Artist Mag.
Joined: Feb 2006
Location: Montreal,Canada
Posts: 475
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Alex, Claudemir, Bonfim: thank you all!
Until recently, I was thinking that trompe-l'oeil and figures were too different to be mixed, except painting an object or a piece of paper over a portrait. The begining of this concept came from a study for a commissioned trompe-l'oeil. As I was completely fascinated by painting babies, I just naturally thought to put a baby in a frame: The client didn't like the idea. After playing a bit with this idea, I decided to do it anyway because it appeared to me so evident, like if this painting had to exist. It's a bit like if all the differents roads I took in my life were meeting here...
I'm very glad that you feel the concept looks natural, because for me it was something absolutely natural, as if this concept was floating in the air and I just caught it to give it a physical form.
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