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March 1, 2011 at 9:42 am #448445
March is here! Not sure exactly where the old folklore thing about March coming in (and going out) like a Lion or a Lamb is from, but I think it’s a Lamb here where I live (though March 1 is not over as I write this, so anything’s possible).
What’s on your easel (or in your sketchbook) this month?
Show a finished portrait or one in any stage of progress (WIP = Work in Progress). This thread is for showcasing your work; others will only critique your work if you request it.
So please show us what you’ve been up to this month. We’d love to see it.
Even if you have already shown it in the main portraiture forum, you are invited to showcase it in this thread, also, as this thread will remain in the Library Archives. (Portrait Swap WIP shots most welcome, too!)
And be sure to check out previous Portrait Galleries in the Archives. Lots of great work in there!
So… let’s get those portraits set up in the gallery….
Cheers, Lauren
https://www.facebook.com/LaurenFosterMacLeod/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauren.fosterm/March 1, 2011 at 9:52 am #515551been on this for a few weeks…from a ref by Pacsaman on Deviant Art.
if not now, when?
http://larubia.blog.co.ukMarch 1, 2011 at 10:11 am #515534Wow, Annemarie! What a challenge — a 3-person portrait.. or narrative painting! Looking really good at this point!:thumbsup:
I wouldn’t want to play cards with this bunch!Cheers, Lauren
https://www.facebook.com/LaurenFosterMacLeod/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauren.fosterm/March 1, 2011 at 1:24 pm #515552Hi Lauren…the ref reminded me of saturday nights when i was a child and the parents and friends played poker all night in a thick haze of smoke…not doing any more to it..really bored with it now.
if not now, when?
http://larubia.blog.co.ukMarch 1, 2011 at 4:53 pm #515548Larubia, I admire you for getting into such complicated stuff. Well done.
Lawrence Humphrey
Torrelles, SpainMarch 1, 2011 at 7:37 pm #515584Wow. Good job on a complicated subject.
JenC & c's always welcome
March 1, 2011 at 8:21 pm #515567Amaazing Larubia ,i love your painting,would you please explain to me how you do the background as the wood stuff like the clock ,the shelf etc… i really did a portrait but i have to fo the shelves behind him as it has books to do too ,i have never tried to ,Thank you
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www.randakhairallah.comMarch 2, 2011 at 4:49 pm #515535Well, Annemarie, you can always come back and work on it more at a later date. I think it has a lot of character, but if you are tired of it, best to not fiddle on it for now. :thumbsup:
We have a new model at Wednesday morning portraiture for this and two more sessions. I want to try it in oils, but this morning just did a drawing in Burnt Umber pastel pencil in my sketchbook. She is wearing a lovely sari and the colours are rich — can’t tell that here, though. :rolleyes:
Roopa:
Cheers, Lauren
https://www.facebook.com/LaurenFosterMacLeod/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauren.fosterm/March 2, 2011 at 9:02 pm #515594Lauren, lovely portrait of Roopa. I will enjoy seeing you oil version as well.
Candace
Runs With ScissorsMarch 3, 2011 at 8:57 am #515553this is one i started yesterday…still a lot to do when paint is dry.
Hi Lauren…WOW…amazing drawing…look forward too to seeing it in oil!
LGHumphrey…Thankyou very much:wave:
Thankyou Turpentine45:)
Hi Randa…use black and pink for dark purply wood and brown madder,yellow ochre andgreen for warm wood…highlights skimmed on with cobalt blue and white..good luck with your painting!if not now, when?
http://larubia.blog.co.ukMarch 3, 2011 at 6:44 pm #515536Wow — AnneMarie — this one is looking great!
You make it look so easy! I struggle so with oils, esp. figuring the values and the colour-mixing. I wish you lived closer so I could take lessons with you.
I’d also love to see your work IRL.Cheers, Lauren
https://www.facebook.com/LaurenFosterMacLeod/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauren.fosterm/March 4, 2011 at 7:19 am #515554nearly finished her ..reckon another morning tomorrow messing round with all that net.
Hi Lauren…well i struggleconstantly..have absolutely no idea where a painting will go..what i learnt doing it the traditional way helps me not one iota as i keep trying different ways.if not now, when?
http://larubia.blog.co.ukMarch 4, 2011 at 11:44 am #515545Zounds!!!! You continually amaze me! The Poker Players is loaded with dazzling accomplishment, which I sum up as three dimensionality. Beginning with the patina on the table, reflected light from objects, poker chips, and going back, and everything appears to be in its separate space. What ever the Pacsamon ref shows, he wasn’t holding your paint brush, and your brush put in a gillion details, and not a one of them is inessential. A few weeks you say? Just mucking about as you are prone say? Gawd. It would take me six months to do this. I’m going to take another look…don’t run off to muck about.
Yep. Three dimensionality in flawless atmospheric perspective. This puts the the figures in a perfectly lighted tableau. And they are not static. I have never seen anything on WC more demanding of viewer response than this. (Credit the photo ref if you insist, but it didn’t hold your paint brush.) There are underlying human dynamics in these still figures that could be interpreted in unlimited ways. And probably all of them would make us smile.
I have a problem with your enormous talent, which is obviously on a line of indefatigable work leading to ever growing excellence – how to comment on it without falling into babbling? My frenzied admiration might embarrass you. Well, that is your problem.
Luke
P.S. The portrait. I will hold off babbling until you finish it.
March 5, 2011 at 8:46 am #515555YAY finished!
STLukesGuild..I’m blushing with:o …..had fun doing that painting.if not now, when?
http://larubia.blog.co.ukMarch 5, 2011 at 1:02 pm #515546Okay. No babbling. Not on this rainy, dreary morning. I am compelled to speak, but with measured gravitas. Question: what are you doing with this prodigious out put? Stacking them in a corner? I ask because of a fantasy seizure. If I was young and wealthy I would fly to England, bang on your door and start buying all you would sell. Don’t laugh. One of these days there will be hot competition for your paintings. And this very post might end up in a monograph about you, that acknowledges saintlukesguild as one of the most astute connoisseurs of his time. Oh, if only I was young and wealthy!
This girl with the fanned hair is the latest in your female line that is saturated with sensuality. Which includes sensibility. But hovers above a line separating sexuality. This magic governs all females you have painted, including yourself. (All those hours spent staring at yourself in a mirror might very well have drawn you into the mother lode of sensuality, which imbued, infused, formed your artistic psyche, but I won’t go into that. ) In fact, all those inanimate lights and things in Poker Players are highly sensual on the viewer’s eyes and mind. So if a single word describes what you do, sensuality is the one I choose. I would buy this girl painting for that reason alone. But there are many other reasons.
Sensuality IS only by all that supports and creates it. In my sporadic tracking of your work, I think you have finally got a lock on flesh tones. They make the sensuality of this girl’s beautiful face, which fascinates me no end because she seems to contain a privacy I will never mentally penetrate. Then there is what looks like a limited palette in this painting. Dark reddish/brownish the top half, flesh tone/greenish the bottom half, simple and harmonious. Which brings up another question. You said above your studies in the traditional way “help you not one iota.” What traditional way?
Then there is the trompe l’oeil you put in. Fooling the eye in the 17th century Dutch sense. The way her hair spreads and fans up can’t happen in any reality, yet without that configuration the effect of this painting would be greatly diminished. That configuration is perfectly complimentary of the drapery below, and essential to the sensuality of that girl’s beautiful and enigmatic face. For a moment I felt like I was on a platform above her bed and looking down at her. But that moment gave way to seeing her standing upright, wrapped in gauzy sheer. Trompe l’oeil in it’s true meaning. Tantalizing and delightful.
Just as I promised. Measured gravitas, no babbling at all.
Luke
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