The convention ended 4 days ago, yet I didn’t really have the time to post the work I did.
Anyway, here are the 2 paintings I did at the ISCA caricature convention in Osaka, Japan.
They’re both oil on panel, using brushes and an etching needle for crosshatching.
Below you can see some details, although they are a bit too low quality to really see something.

The convention itself was awesome. With no doubt the best convention I’ve been to!
If you would like to read some more about the convention and my Japan experience itself, I wrote about it in this post on my tumblr blog.

Here’s my biggest painting I’ve yet made.
It’s 2 by 2 meters oil on canvas.

First how it’s now visible as a painting.

How it was before I painted the code on top. The code on top actually links to this picture. (yet I didn’t upload this picture yet to the link I coded into the code. So consider it a WIP)

- 65×65 cm oil on canvas

Both Images are painted on the same canvas. The first shown is actually painted on top of the second. In the first one I painted an MS tag, which you can scan with your smartphone with the ms-tag reader application. This links to a page on which you get to see the image of the self-portrait underneath (which you can here see as the second image)
(I didn’t have the time to make the page were the tag links to yet, but you get the idea.)

-oil glaze on board.
I experimented a bit with cross hatching on this one.

a detail.

-Oil on panel
“Pearl For Tits” is an anagram for “Self portrait”

A close up of the self portrait that’s central in the QR I showed to you in the previous post.
-Oil on canvas

A study I did before combining it with the QR.
-Oil on panel

-Oil on canvas, 65×65 cm

This painted QR code links to my twitter account and has a code free space, where I painted a self portrait after Rembrandt’s 1628 Self-portrait, which I earlier digitally modified into my face.
I’ll update this post with some close ups on the self portrait tomorrow, when I have a better picture.

-Blue pencil and varnish on canvas, 65×65 cm

Because I kept the contrast very low with the blue lines, it’s not scanable. Yet I liked the material qualities and the subtleties of it and, for this piece, chose those above the ability to scan it.

-Tape and varnish on canvas, 65×65 cm

The following days I’ll be uploading more pictures of my latest project, where I work around the way we are more and more attatched to the digital media, the internet and social networks. As the digitalisation becomes a daily aspect of our lives, one firmly attatched to the other and the same the other way around I wanted to make works which are depending on the digital media. In this area I seek for cross overs between digital and tradition. For this I’ve been using fysical, visual codes linking to digital pictures or texts, such as QR code, EZ code and MS tag.
This one is one I made in the beginning of my series, trying out the possibilities of the QR codes I made this one, which converts into my name, when you scan it with a qr code scanner app on your smartphone.
I think/ hope the idea will become more clear to you when I post the rest of my paintings on this matter.
Until then, stay tuned!