I love to dig in and see how artists worked in the past and extract and use some of their techniques. Master Copying has always been a part of learning as a student. Peter Paul Rubens did over 450 copies in his illustrious career. I try to do at least one every 6 months or so, so here are a few Master Copies that I've done over the past few years. J. C. Leyendecker Albert Herter Norman Rockwell
This past year I have been able to paint with a small group of professional artists in Maynard MA. While teaching, I wanted to take them through the step by step process that I had learned at The Water Street Atelier. Below is each step in this process for doing a still life painting. The Drawing : this is the most essential part of the whole process. I use my drawing (done from life) to recreate the 3 dimensional world on my 2 dimensional paper. I'm mapping over the set up so many times that I become really familiar with the objects and the orientation of the light to the objects. Transfer to Canvas : In this step, I get a printout of my drawing to scale, and do a paint transfer to canvas. Essentially its rubbing paint on the back of paper and then applying the paper over the canvas. I use a ball point pen over the printout to push the paint onto the canvas. when my drawing is transferred and dry, I go back in and do a open grisaille. This is done usually in on...
Happy to announce I won a gold medal in this years Allied Artists of America "102nd Annual Exhibition" for Oil Painting. There is a closing reception/awards ceremony on Sunday Sept. 13th from 1-4. Please join if you are free!
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You definitely have way more patience than I do - I'd want numerous figures and studies - but I suppose I'm a spaz.