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quirktheory t1_itbbq6r wrote

As someone who knows nothing about art, could you enlighten me as to how a piece like this is made? Is there any reference, or is it all from a mental image?

It is an absolutely beautiful piece.

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novembervind OP t1_itj53oj wrote

Hi, thank you so much, and sorry for the late reply! For this one I had a reference image that is a still from a very short sketch that was featured in a Norwegian children’s show from the early 2000s, and then I changed the colours and the background to what I thought would look better, and the ghost to the right has also been changed a bit, but the one to the left is mostly the same! For my other paintings I usually take the reference photo myself and then also paint from memory/my imagination to add things I’d like to see in the painting, but for this one I was just really enjoying that very short clip and wanted to paint it in a different way :)

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