There are lots of inspirations in daily life that make our thoughts flutter and let us think about possible projects. Be it a place, a person, a particular situation, a feeling, or even an object.

For Gilles Didier, an airbrush artist from France, it was my picture “Red Lips”. At the beginning of this year, I received a personal request from Gilles with the request to use one of my works as a template. My image Red Lips has tied him so much that he wanted to create his own kind of art.

I was so enthusiastic about the idea of seeing my picture as an airbrush artwork that I had no choice than to give Gilles the permission to fulfill his request.

As a passionate amateur, as he likes to describe himself, Gilles has made its mission to capture my Red Lips picture on canvas.

Gilles as an artist, hence his work, was still completely unknown to me. After looking through his very diverse portfolio, I was blown away.

I was aware that it would take some time until the picture was finished. I could feel my enthusiasm growing day by day, and I felt resigned in time – like a child in anticipation of Christmas.

The selection of the required tools is essential to achieve its goal. The art is not to only “picture” a picture, it is all about the knowing how to.

It was a challenge to transmit the light reflections of the individual glass fragments so that they were realistic. What makes us successful as a photographer through the use of light is somewhat a different way of its art of recognizing light and its effect and to get it right.