When we last featured artist and illustrator Karl Joel Larsson’s work it was steeped in the traditions of past masters – particularly Picasso and Matisse. Since then, Karl has been focusing his work on developing his own style, and in particular concentrating his efforts on drawing people. “I first started drawing people in my Matisse paraphrases. Gradually, after I’d found more of my own way of drawing I began to realise how one-sided women where portrayed in a lot of Matisse’s work. And he was not alone in this, art history is full of similar works. I found that I too had fallen into that same trap with my paraphrases, I hadn’t reflected on things like skin colour, body shapes and body language and posturing,” Karl explains. “In those drawings I thought of the people as just like another part of the interior. Now the people I draw take centre stage and the rest of the motif is composed around them.”
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