Washing Hands in Innocence - Guilty Anyway!, 2014

At the end of my study at the Academy for Old Painting Techniques in Den Bosch, I wanted to try out the old masters' crafts myself, to satisfy my fascination. I choose for a cut-out of a painting by Matthias Stomm, a painter whom I greatly appreciate; 'Pilate Washing his Hands' its called and painted in Italy about 1640, to see in the Louvre, Paris.

I started my cutout composition, carefully made, twice as big as the original and to reconstruct it patiently layer to layer. At a certain moment I gave it a personal 'subtle' twist by having clear water turn into blood through his hands... Guilty anyway! By the way, the thin red blood beam is positioned right in the centre of the painting.

And thereafter I called it a day, lesson learned ;-)