Re: Become an expert on painting portraits in days

In Reply to: Become an expert on painting portraits in days posted by bill on 09/13/00 at 5:16 PM:

If one was to take Rembrandt's advice to simply 'take a brush and paint', as your indicates in so many words (without the wonderful laconic simplicity of of Mr. Rembrandt, of course)
then there would be no need for this forum.
How do you figure that one will paint the imponderable hollows of the dimples and other facial irregularities which become suffused with those olive tints that were best painted by Vermeer and by the divine Giorgione?
How does one "trace", as you advice us to do most readily, the face of the sitter that the painter will paint? ---A camera obscura, a length of glass that has been divided into equal squares?
Ah, what about the immense discipline of copying without these materials?
The more that I seek True Craftsmanship, the more that I see it vanish in the world.

Re: Become an expert on painting portraits in days a   Posted at: 04/14/01

 
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