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May 4, 2004 at 10:51 pm #984166
I’m in love with a 500 year old woman!
As soon as I saw her surprise appearance in this month’s MOM, I knew – I just had to paint her! (thanks, Richard, for introducing us!)
16 x 12 in acrylic gessoed board, my usual alkyds – scrubbed in a pale wash of titanium white, ivory black and burnt umber + mineral spirits, roughed out and shaded a first layer with a darker version of the same mix. So everything’s a couple of lovely shades of mud at the moment!
Dave
May 4, 2004 at 10:54 pm #1030389Excellent start, Dave! You just rock lately Mr.Cool!! Please tell us more about this laison…who is she?
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May 4, 2004 at 11:54 pm #1030417Nice to read you like the older women Mr Cool.
There’s hope for me yet.Great start Dave, I know you are going to knock our socks off with this.
Pulling up a chair, but not holding my breath just yet.
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May 5, 2004 at 4:08 am #1030388Hi,
I will wait your steps with impatience. In another thread I asked suggestions for drapery. This subject has a very complex drapery, so I hope you can tell us in very detail how you will solve this subject matter.
Thanks in advance
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seascape 2May 5, 2004 at 6:05 am #1030429I’m in love with a 500 year old woman!
Dave
I’m telling you now…..it will end in tears!!!
May 5, 2004 at 8:12 am #1030386I’m in love with a 500 year old woman!
As soon as I saw her surprise appearance in this month’s MOM, I knew – I just had to paint her! Dave
good going Dave, when I saw her show up I thought…why aren’t we painting that picture, we can now all live vicariously through you…this time
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"even when you win the rat race you're still a rat" - Joan CollinsMay 5, 2004 at 10:12 am #1030517you’re welcome.
and thank you for posting the “basil chick” in the classical forum.
keep us posted with your palet on updates.
Richard
May 5, 2004 at 2:49 pm #1030449I will wait your steps with impatience. In another thread I asked suggestions for drapery. This subject has a very complex drapery, so I hope you can tell us in very detail how you will solve this subject matter.
There are lots of ways one could approach this – what I’m intending to do here is to work up a tonal underpainting in greys and browns (and I might throw in a bit of green too if I feel like it!) to establish brightness values first, by painting several layers to refine and correct, and work from the current rough block-in towards increasing detail.
Personally I find this more fun than doing a detailed drawing stage (or rather I’m using this as my drawing stage, but doing it in paint). I’m doing this in alkyds, which are fast-drying (but live in cold damp old London, which means even the alkyds take a while) so will do a layer each day if “real life” allows the time
Dave
May 5, 2004 at 6:50 pm #1030450For the impatient sasaman
Here’s my second stage (about 15 mins work in this stage) – the initial painting is now dry, so I’m going over brighter areas with a thin coat of titanium white (only, no other colour used here) – straight out the tube, no medium, applied with a 3/8″ synthetic flat brush – to start to pick out brighter areas of drapery and skin – I’m only interested in brightening things a bit with this pass, and in establishing general shapes – what’s most important to me, thoughout, is keeping a physically flat surface, not building up any ridges of paint.
more to come a little later…
Dave
May 5, 2004 at 9:24 pm #1030451A quick layer of burnt sienna + french ultramarine, to start building some of the gorgeous chocolatey-blacks we see in the original.
Overall effect at the moment is still mud-pies, but there’s much more to come, yet!
Dave
May 5, 2004 at 11:39 pm #1030407May 6, 2004 at 10:58 am #1030498Dave,
Thanks for this wip…I’m excited to see how it develops! I think that, already, you’re getting that fabric to look like fabric with it’s satiny texture. And I, too, think that this is a lovely painting.
~!Carey
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"...I wished to live deliberately...and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived." ---Henry David ThoreauMay 6, 2004 at 11:19 am #1030426I’m also here for the duration and very much look forward to wordy explanations (major hint).
May 6, 2004 at 11:24 am #1030430May 6, 2004 at 11:39 am #1030410She doesn’t look a day over 400… but you’re making her look younger with every stroke. Great WIP Dave!
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