Blue HairRiae

The fourth time I painted this woman, and the one that took longest.

Most of this canvas is not her. It is what she is kneeling on, and I could not tell you why that had to take four weeks.

Something in her face shifted while I was working and I did not notice until I was nearly done. I left it exactly as it was. It is the reason the painting stopped when it did.

What do you do with it?

Inspired by a photograph of Riae Suicide (@riae_). One of four canvases of Riae.

Buying it is the easy part

The photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.

Ordering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. That part is yours.

About this work

Original oil on canvas. One of a kind.

• Size — 100 × 100 cm (height × width)
• Edition — one of one, signed. Not a print and not an edition.
• Series — Painted Idols, oil portraits of women who are looked at for three seconds at a time
• Studio — Boekel, the Netherlands
• Shipping — insured from the Netherlands, certificate of authenticity included