Description
‘Mythical VillageHopper’ by Ed Schaap
Artist: Ed Schaap
Title: ‘Mythical VillageHopper’
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 23.6″ x 31.5″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
Ed Schaap, with his distinctive surrealist style, invites us into a world where time and space intermingle freely. ‘Mythical VillageHopper,’ a colossal yet strangely elusive creature, becomes the embodiment of whimsical wander, materializing and vanishing in the blink of an eye across mythical landscapes. This painting, saturated in the warmth of earthy tones and imbued with magical and steampunk elements, feels like a fragment of a fairy tale, a moment stolen from a universe where the peculiar and the extraordinary are the norms. Schaap’s masterful interpretation of surrealism and fantasy beckons the viewer to ponder on the vast, enchanting possibilities of imagination and dreams.
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
My name is Ed Schaap and was born in Sittard, Limburg, The Netherlands in 1965. As a child I had already shown a penchant for fantasy and science fiction films and series that where at that time on the television. Especially at a time when films like Star Wars and Alien came in premier , I was fascinated by this unknown world, and I got carried away in it.
As for the art I make, it must say that I was influenced and inspired by certain artists and concept artists, but in the course of time I have found my own way . The works I create are generally subjects from the history, myths and legends, but also the things of everyday life. I give it my own vision.
The technique at the beginning that I used was airbrush. At a certain moment I started to miss a few things in my work. By experimenting with a combination of a brush and airbrush, I learned that the scenic effect of working with the brush was the missing element in my work. With these two components together in my recent work I find the result satisfactory.
Despite this result, I am also begun to paint in oils. Here a completely new world opened for me, just to name one example, the colors obtained with oil paint are almost impossible to make with acrylic paint.
I have also been making digital illustrations, works created using a computer. I make this “from scratch” which means that you build a illustration completely from beginning to end from scratch, the same as a blank sheet of paper or canvas where you start sketching.