Summary
Original painting of some Indonesian herbs and spices by contemporary artist Bart Carels.
Title: ‘Herbs and spices’
Artist: Bart Carels
Year: 2020
Description
The video above speaks for itself, but the progress is similar to what I’ve been doing lately. I prepared my canvas with some gesso, mixed with Vermillion. Then I started to create the lines of my subject with primary cyan to make sure my composition was good enough in terms of size and proportions. Next step was adding in the background and the surface. Then I started filling the plastic containers and finished by adding some smaller details like shadows and highlights.
The herbs and spices I used as a subject come from the Indonesian (in my case Dutch-Indonesian) cuisine.
My dad was born in the Dutch East Indies (a Dutch colony now Indonesia). He was of mixed European and Indonesian descent, meaning his ancestors were both Indonesian and European. When he came to the Netherlands with his parents, brother and sister in the fifties, he took a lot of his country of birth with him. Think of music, food, attitude and behavior. After marrying my (Dutch) mom, my brother and I grew up with both Dutch and Indo influences. This sometimes shows in my art as well.
Anyway, one of the things about my roots I enjoy very much is the food. I like to cook (and eat) and this subject shows some herbs and spices typically used in the Indo cuisine. Now you can see we buy the herbs and spices in these plastic containers because lots of dishes use a lot of this stuff (several teaspoons of each). So better make sure you have some stock!
Showing in the painting (from top to bottom): Coriander (Ketumbar), Candle Nuts (Kemiri), Cumin (Jinten) and Turmeric (Kunyit/Kunir).
Original Painting
- Just one in the world
- Medium: Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions: 24×30 cm / 9×11 inches
- Color Palette: Cyan | Magenta | Yellow | Black |White
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