Ruling out the line work
Lois explains how changing the way she works helped her find her voice, a style and a mood that she’s become synonymous with When Lois van Baarle decided to abandon line art and instead paint over her sketches with the bright colours that have become her calling card, it marked a turning point in her creative career.
“This sounds like a detail, but it changed my entire way of working,” the Dutch artist says. “I stopped planning out my artwork ahead of time and stopped wasting time on details in the line work.”
Changing her technique in this way helped Lois shape a trademark style she calls “feminine and emotive”, while also drawing on two of her biggest inspirations: Disney and Art Nouveau. Her overall aim is to capture a very specific moment in time, and she achieves this largely through colour.
“My process became more intuitive and I added details while painting, not in the line work. This has become the defining feature of my current digital painting process.”