GALLERI 2

Här kan du följa tillkomsten av mitt nya porträtt av Pablo Picasso steg för steg.

My PICASSO PORTRAIT:

1. Artist and Model. In 2010 this Picasso portrait was sensored on Facebook. The same year I showed it at the Autumn Salon in Stockholm. On my way from the train to the exhibition hall I happened to walk behind a beautiful well-dressed couple. I was fascinated by the woman's slender curved lines across her bottom, which wobbled slightly when she walked. I enjoyed this sight until I had to turn off at the exhibition hall. Later in the day I suddenly saw this couple again, now in the exhibition hall, standing in front of my Picasso portrait. The man pointed at the sign I had put up: Censored on Facebook! And the woman commented: "That is not strange! Do you see the artist who paints the naked woman? He keeps the painting upright in his hand, but it looks like he supports it with something more!"I found it hard to keep myself from laughing, but the beauty was completely earnest!

2. Stage 1: Copying a well known photo of Picasso. A hint of red in the background.

3. Stage 4: Sketching some Picasso works and a model in the face.

4. Stage 7: Building a room. Adding more Picasso works on the wall, and a bra.

5. Stage 9: Work on the floor. The artist painting in the foreground.

6. Stage 11: I am testing to place one of Picasso´s early self portraits at the upper left corner. Picasso´s The Dream, is "the brain" in my portrait.

7. Stage 13: I am here introducing the theme Beauty-Beast in the relation Model-Artist. Picasso used that theme himself in some of his late works. And: Splash, drop! Opening up the color scale!

8. Stage 19: Work on the light.

9. Stage 20: Spreading warm sunlight over the studio.

10. An African view on my painting: Somolu Dare from Nigeria wrote to me on Facebook.