Save| Year of creation | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 60 W × 100 H × 2 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | surrealism |
| Genre | mythological |
| Materials | oil, canvas |
Description of the Artwork “Seedling”
The dream world is not actually a world consisting of soil, earth and rocks, they are living worlds or rather beings. Sometimes there is an intergrowth from a world like a dandelion here on earth, it gets bigger and bigger, that depends on the number of dreams. They grow so big that at some point they break off and are slowly carried by the wind. They are seedlings and they can float through the air for thousands of years, sometimes they end up on another world and sometimes they float and are populated by other dream beings. This creates new dreams and dream worlds.
Seedling
Ed Schaap, Netherlands
My name is Ed Schaap, I was born in Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands in 1965. As a child, I already showed a penchant for fantasy and science fiction movies and series that were shown on television at the time. Especially around the time movies like Star Wars and Alien came out, I was fascinated and fascinated by this unknown world. As for the art that I create, I have to say that I have been influenced and inspired by certain artists and concept artists, but over time I have found my own way. The works that I create are, as a rule, subjects from history, myths and legends, as well as things from everyday life. I give my own vision. In the beginning I used an airbrush. At a certain point, I started to miss a few things in my work. While experimenting with the combination of brush and airbrush, I realized that the painterly effect of brushwork was the missing element in my work. With these two components together in my recent work I find the result satisfactory. Despite this result, I also started painting with oils. Here a completely new world opened up for me, for example, the colors obtained with oil paint are almost impossible to create with acrylic paint.