Sargent: Portrait Challenge for April & May - Extended into June! - Page 4

jonwood · #46 04-11-2012, 09:01 AM

Thank you very much Alexandra...I'll stop lurking but to draw non stop would be a pleasure..but would need a break or two !!!!
It will be very hard to meet the standards set already by the artists on here..but I'll see what I can do....

jonwood · #47 04-11-2012, 01:36 PM

This is my first attempt..I used a photo of Sargent as reference ..I hope you like it.

Sandybells · #48 04-11-2012, 02:14 PM

This is Mrs. William Shakespeare. Sargeant painted her and I changed her dress color. Done several months ago for the Masters project exchange. this was painted rather small. Can't remember if it was 2.50 X 3.50 inches or larger.

Sandybells

**NancyMP** · #49 04-11-2012, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by lovin art

What can I say ~ this drove me insane in the Brain .

.. Nista Nice! , is this Oils?

Sandra, this is great handling of charcoals! She has a sense of mystery about her that you've added from your own special heart!

And thank you so much for all the encouragement you've been giving everyone here while my connection was down - you are such an angel!

It was a treat to get online again and see everyone getting excited about the Sargent Challenge! Please try a lot more than one, since this challenge will be up thru May! My camera is still on the fritz or I would show you my start on the nude Egyptian girl. I was going to make it a WIP, but now I think I'll just finish it before I post, or if I can't get satisfied with my effort, start a WIP in the middle.

All of your work is so nicely done, folks, and I hope I can measure up...if I can't, I'll continue to lurk...

lovin art · #50 04-11-2012, 05:18 PM

Ooooh Nance

you go and Highlight my sad attempt.! ... now I must go to the back of the class and draw mind numbing shapes to appease you and myself for that matter

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really its Lovely to have you back and missed you heappsss and the pleasure as they say to helping out~was all mine ... I will try for some color Next maybe , I do look forward to seeing yours and no Lurking is allowed Me Lady ....

Great works Peebles keep going .....

crafor · #51 04-11-2012, 08:01 PM

Here's my WIP, the third draft. This is "Young Girl wearing a White Muslin"
It's about 6x6", graphite and charcoal on bond paper. I learned several things with the second version. One biggie was that I make everything larger that life, a second was a breakthrough in how to look, how to see better. Now I can transfer those understandings to my work. Finally, I feel like I'm making progress, it no longer feels like a complete exercise in futility! Thanks for looking.
C&C welcome.
Crafor

camton · #52 04-11-2012, 09:25 PM

Lots of beautiful work here. I haven't been in the portrait challenge thread for ages. Every single one I love, I don't know where to start-guess I'll have to do all of them....lol

Dave61123 · #53 04-12-2012, 12:19 AM

Some great work being displayed.

Dave61123 · #54 04-12-2012, 12:20 AM

Done with watercolour brushes using Twisted Brush

pintor · #55 04-12-2012, 02:57 PM

Good works, everybody! This is lots of fun trying to copy a virtuoso painter and draftsman as Sargent was. I have done three drawings already...and I painted a copy of Lady Agnew in 2007, which was for me a challenging and wonderful painting experience.

a close up:

fivespices · #56 04-12-2012, 06:11 PM

Wow, lets of great posts here. Please keep posting and I hope I can joint you all next month.

Ken: The pastel is juicy and the strokes are Sargentm like. Of course, your works are always good. I am

that I am alergic to pastel dust. But I still learn a lots from how you apply your pastel.

Sandra: The way you apply your charcoal shown that you have been study Sargent for a while. Because I was in the Boston Museum of Fine Art for two days. There is a whole section dedicated to Sargent's works and I saw lots of his charcoal works, they are simple lines and yet very effective. I am bowing to this master. I am also bowing to William Paxton's oil. BMFA owns 19 of his paintings and I only got to see 3. I hope to see more of your drawings.

kim

wjrmonkey · #57 04-12-2012, 06:38 PM

Part I: copying Sargent's "Head of Italian Woman"

Part II (completion) coming soon.

Pencil on paper

fivespices · #58 04-12-2012, 08:36 PM

wjmonkey:

Very sensitive start, I am looking forward for the completion.

kim

Dave61123 · #59 04-12-2012, 11:36 PM

My take on his Girl Wearing White Muslin

**NancyMP** · #60 04-12-2012, 11:56 PM

José, what a lot of work you've done already, and it all looks super! Great accuracy, and you've made it look easy, which, in my book, is a Sargent skill!

wjrmonkey, what a beautiful start you have on the Italian woman - she looks lovely! This is one that's on my list to do, too!

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