Pretty soon after Saskia started drawing and painting again in 2010, she started with using acrylic paint. She especially likes working with the glazing technique: adding layer after layer of transparent paint, giving more depth to a painting.
Painting with acrylic paint
On this page you'll find a summary of Saskia's current acrylic paintings. Sometimes she uses canvas as a medium, or wood, but she prefers working with masonite/gessoboard. Simply because it allows her to add even more fine details. Although acrylic paint is fast drying, Saskia doesn't find it hard to blend the colors on her palet or on her medium.
These are all loose paintings. They do not contain complete series.
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Fire and Ice
A small painting Saskia created for an auction of Instagram's Surreal Harmony Art Collective.
The theme: Winter Wonders.
Size: 12,7 x 12,7cm
Created with acrylic paint on masonite.
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The Missing Piece
This is one of the paintings Saskia created in the year after her mother's passing. Saskia's niece was told that her grandmother Mia now is a star in heaven.
Saskia combined this with the idea of the Blue Morpho butterfly, to her a symbol of her mom. Butterflies are also the symbol of transformation, and of the souls of the dead.
Created with acrylic paint on gessoboard.
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Ostara
The Wiccan version of Easter. The third piece in a series Saskia started once, but hasn't completed yet...
Created with acrylics on wood.
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Imbolc
Imbolc is the Wiccan way of celebrating the new and fruitful time of the year. It's a farewell to winter time.
Created with acrylics on wood.
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Yule
The Wiccan name for what we call Christmas.
Created with acrylics on wood.
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Star Light Star Bright
Created as a design for a Christmas card. A Christmas fairy with one of Saskia's dragons.
Created with acrylics on wood.
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Christmas Candy Dragon
One of the Christmas card designs from the time Saskia painted fantasy style images. Dragons like these were incorporated often in her artwork.
Created with acrylic paint on gessoboard.
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Secret of the Shell
Chosen to be featured as a magazine cover for the Rejected Quarterly, an American literary magazine.
Created with acrylic paint on gessoboard.
Time Traveler
A style Saskia very much likes, is steampunk. This steampunk time traveler has a choice to make; to be with her loved one, or to explore the world and its different dimensions. The choice has been made...
Created with acrylic paint on gessoboard.
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Puppet of Fate
Sometimes things happen, that seem destined to be, but that leaves us without any influence. We're so called puppets of fate.
This acrylic painting marked the start in the transition to painting larger heads and big eyes. Also, the paintings now al start to have e certain meaning, instead of earlier artwork.
Created with acrylics on canvas board.
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Genie in a Bottle
Saskia created this painting after her mom was first diagnosed. What would you wish if you found a genie in a bottle? Saskia knew what her answer would be...
Created with acrylics on canvas board.
Buy an acrylic painting?
Do you like Saskia's style, and are you interested in buying an acrylic painting? Then please contact Saskia for the possibilities. Some pieces are still available. Of course you can also pay a visit to her online store. There you will find original illustrations, among other things.
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