Painting Class Update – first layers of color
I talk about the first steps in this previous post but I wanted to give an update
This is the original Luini that I am recreating on display at the National Gallery of Art and as an added bonus, I’ve got a fun sister-trip planned to DC in just a couple weeks! I’m going to get to meet her in person.
Her face is looking rather creepy but I’m proud of the drapery. Â My next class is going to be a portraiture drawing class. Â Clearly I need some help 🙂
Sarah
Painting Class Update
I’ve transfered the Luini onto my portrait and covered it with the first layer of glaze. We then went in with a white tempura paint and added the highlights.
She’s certainly coming along quite nicely.
Here is the drawing:
And here she is with layer 1:
This is the original Luini that I am recreating on display at the National Gallery of Art. Well, I guess she’s not on display right now but after this shutdown is over, she’ll be on display.
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Painting Class
I started a new painting class where we are learning some renaissance painting techniques. For this class we are going to reproduce a renaissance portrait.
It took me a long time to figure out what painting I wanted to work on.
My first thought was this painting of Suzanne Fourment by Ruben. Â I like her hat though her boobage is a bit much.
or Dame a la Licorne by Raphael. Â I mean, a Unicorn…awesome
or the lovely dark-haired girl in La Famille et Sainte Catherine by Ribera. Â I looked at several Saint Catherine portraits. Â She was a princess who through her own knowledge and learning came to know Jesus and debated with all the pagan scholars of the day and one. Â She was executed and her “symbol” is a wagon wheel and books of knowledge.
But I finally decided on La Magdelene by Luini.
She is at the National Gallery in DC and it will be so exciting to go and see her in person after I’ve done my interpretation. Â I love the green dress and the red-ish hair. Â Her token jar of perfume is in her hands which is lovely as well.
I’ll be posting updates on my painting as it progresses. Don’t hope for too much.
Sarah
New Plan: Blue Walls in Den
We were thinking brown, looking at brown, planning on brown but browns are hard. Â If they are too light, they are tan and if they are too dark they are kind of poopy for lack of a better word.
Then we were thinking Dark Gray. Â Dark and moody and neutral.
Dark Gray is sophisticated and moody while still being a neutral.  Then I saw a picture in Home Decorator’s Collection (page 43 of their Early Summer 2013 catalog) and I knew, it was Blue.
I picked up a sample when my mother was in town and it is perfect! Â It’s a navy dusty blue.
I picked up the paint last weekend and I can’t wait to get it up on the walls. I’ll be sure to show you pics!
The next decisions for this room are lighting and built-ins.
I’m thinking of maybe getting unfinished oak kitchen cabinets from Home Depot and then getting some of those unfinished wood bookcases from an unfinished wood furniture place nearby. Then we can either stain everything to match or paint everything the blue from the walls or the blue from the walls in high gloss.
This room by Vincente Wolf in Architectural Digest has the blue built-ins that meld seamlessly with the blue walls. B-E-A-U-Tiful but we do like our wood tones.
We could go painted but white like Markam Robert’s library below.
But I just love the look of wood bookcases…
and wood libraries like this one from Studio Peregalli
Painting that room is going to be scary but I think it’s going to look AWESOME!
Sarah
sheila zimmermann
10/5/2013 | 3:31 pm Permalink
I think you have made a good choice. Have fun.