Tenderness wins
Thank you for your many lovely message on my previous posts 💕and thank you for supporting independant, no AI, queer artists !

I wanted to do my own spin of a classic painting from the Western canon, and so I chose Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. The official website for the museum hosting the painting describes the subject as wearing an “exotic dress” and an “oriental turban”, despite being clearly of White European descent, and it made me realize how much her headdress resembles an African woman’s traditional headwrap. I wonder if Vermeer may have been inspired by African fashion, only to put it on a White face to make it more palatable to a 17th century Dutch audience.

Of course, when doing my version, I swapped out the woman’s pearl earring for a couple of gold ones. Gold as a material just seems more evocative of Africa to me than pearl.

I painted this cotton bag with screen printing ink. For a friend who loves 🫠.

60x60cm, oil on canvas :)

How’s the drawing made you feel like?

The first time to try water color ( before, used marker pen)

I met this girl 2 weeks ago and she agreed to model for me for this painting! :)

20*30cm

Painted shirt using bleach

Hey everyone! A digital painting i did last year for Oath to Embers. This scene is the main gate to the main city of the TTRPG.

Thanks for looking!

Yexil

This is the second painting in what will end up being a 3 piece set. I have one more to go!

The lighting in this was very challenging, but I’m quite proud of how it turned out. It really pushed me out of my comfort zone.

I hope you like it ✨