Fine Art: drawing, painting and etching

Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Bunny Blonde


With "The Bunny Blonde" I refer to the women who like to depict theirselves as 'Playboy-bunnies'. The bunny-ears make te person look like the sweet, cute, small, soft and innocent creatures but also remind us to the sexual behaviour of bunnies, which is a double message. Most of times these ears try to make a shallow image of women or for that matter, beauty. In this work I just want to depict the innocent beauty of it.
The picture I used as a basis for the human head was a perfume-advertisment showing a girl with this old-fashioned hairdo, very light hair and an alarming long neck. I was struck by the way the braids crossed her head and found her gaze intruiging.
The work is again on hardwood with white and pink acrylics and pencil.

My photo
Bachelor Fine Art, educated at Willem de Kooning Art Academy Rotterdam. Exhibited at Walls Amsterdam, Blaak10Gallery Rotterdam, Witte de With Festival, Le Fabrique, Utrecht, KunstpodiumT (Tilburg), De Kunstsuper, Podium O950 (twice), and Las Palmas II in Rotterdam. "Hare Majesty"(etch 2010) got awarded third place in the annual Allianz Grafiekprijs(2010-2011). Currently I work and live at The Hague.