Original artwork description:

The painting depicts my daughter giggling at herself in the mirror together with a summer view of my studio's home altar. She gets jealous if I paint other children too often and the altar is meant to bless all my artistic endeavours. This is also a depiction of laziness, when it's a beautiful summer day outside but you decide to stay at home anyway.
The experience of model-artists relationship can be linked to the ancient tantric practice of eye gazing, which can be transformed into respectful attentiveness, benevolent contemplation of other perso. The artist respects and distinguishes emotional and physical traits with admiration and care while depicting it. It can help at moments when the model feels insecure or depressed about his/her appearance (in cases of of illness or old age, for example). It serves as a tangible proof of person's outer and inner beauty because it is perceived and captured on paper. The long and painstaking painting process itself serves as proof of worthiness of a model: people in doubt receive an evidence of their value as human beings. “Do you see what I see?” I ask, while the model ponders at the drawing.
It is painted on 300 g/m² Arches watercolor paper and not framed.

Materials used:

Watercolor on paper

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