Medieval Girl

[fugitive]

We all grow up seeing Leonardo Da Vinci and his works, I have done two or more renditions of this one, Head of a tousled young woman. I read a piece from that era that said you could see the way the brows or lashes grew, by looking at the painting. Unfortunatly, the scans I have show nothing even close. This stuff really moves me, he was so good with graphite, don't imagine they had pencils. I've tried to show the darkness that a lot of old paintings have, but also show some nice colors that may have survived the centurys. PSP 7, 8.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/25-Nov-2003/9466-medieval_girl_II_wc.jpg

[Alan Cross]

Very nice...
Alan :)

[ursus]

Now, if we could read those 'letters'(?) in the background and they were a love poem...

[fugitive]

Originally posted by ursus
Now, if we could read those 'letters'(?) in the background and they were a love poem... Y

You mean this?

[Dyin]

I like this...very definately classical and interesting to get this result with non-traditional methods. Makes me want to take it to an art restorer and see the original colors revealed. :cool:

[ursus]

Originally posted by fugitive
Y

You mean this?

Yes

[fugitive]

Originally posted by ursus


Yes Well, let's talk about it.
I've never studied any of this, but I have noticed something on a few pieces. This is good stuff. The experts don't have a clue? I'm so amazed this stuff even exists, being so old.

[artmom]

Nice!

Lyn

[ursus]

Fugitive I think the reason might be money, lack of it.

As you know paper used to be expensive so maybe they used paper which was already written on...

The first laws in Spain under the Visigoth kingdom were written that way. By carefully scratching the old script off and writting on the space which used to be the blank space between the lines.

At the time of this painting paper was cheap enough for Kings, but maybe not for an artist... so the letters which were once covered by paint after all this time have became apparent again.

I'm just guessing though.

The effect however is lovely...

[fugitive]

Originally posted by ursus
Fugitive I think the reason might be money, lack of it.

As you know paper used to be expensive so maybe they used paper which was already written on...

The first laws in Spain under the Visigoth kingdom were written that way. By carefully scratching the old script off and writting on the space which used to be the blank space between the lines.

At the time of this painting paper was cheap enough for Kings, but maybe not for an artist... so the letters which were once covered by paint after all this time have became apparent again.

I'm just guessing though.

The effect however is lovely... Except a lot of these works are done on wood panels.