View Full Version : First picture in thirty years...
W3MIV
09-24-2008, 03:32 PM
I have now on my easel a portrait, which I must be insane to attempt after so long away from the easel. Nevertheless, I have begun. The image is of the "dead layer," or the grisaille, if you prefer. This layer will be overlaid by some thirty or forty thin glazes ("sfumato"). I shall try to post progress -- if I survive.
Obviously, the image did not come through, so I pasted a link.
http://w3miv.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!EFE50D5829857646!142/?&_c02_owner=1
The canvas is 16x20.
kc7jty
09-24-2008, 03:37 PM
Who is it Albie?
W3MIV
09-24-2008, 03:40 PM
My father-in-law, who is a WWII 15th AF vet and is 86. Bear in mind, the "hair," shirt and face are all unfinished, and will be slowly glazed. The shirt will be dark denim. The hair is gray with a hint of brown (my hair is dead white! :cry: ). I should also add that he wears specs, and I shall add them at the last.
Wish I could figure how to post an image that will work.
Albert, if you want, I can either copy it and post it at an image-hosting site or just upload it here. The advantage to the image-hosting site is that you can post it anywhere else on the web that allows images. The advantage to posting it here is that you get a hit counter on it. Let me know how you'd feel about that.
:)
W3MIV
09-24-2008, 03:53 PM
Thanks, John. I was trying just to upload it here. I thought that since it was uploaded to a "blog" site, it would link via the 'Img' button. I was w-w-w-r-r-r-r-r-ong! (Like the Fonz, I HATE admitting that! :shhh: ). If you could just upload it, that would be fine. How can I upload?
Thanks, John. I was trying just to upload it here. I thought that since it was uploaded to a "blog" site, it would link via the 'Img' button. I was w-w-w-r-r-r-r-r-ong! (Like the Fonz, I HATE admitting that! :shhh: ). If you could just upload it, that would be fine. How can I upload?
Copy the picture to a file on your hard drive (Like C:\My Pictures). Upload using the "upload attachment" below the "post a reply" box. Click on browse and navigate to the directory the picture is in. After you get to the right directory, click on or type the name of the picture file in the box called "file name". Then click on "Add the file" and then either preview or submit.
To use image hosting, do a google search and follow the instructions there.
W3MIV
09-24-2008, 04:19 PM
TU, John. No matter what George says about you, I'll stick by ye, buddy. ;)
W3MIV
09-26-2008, 12:41 PM
First glaze of color over the abbozzo and a glaze of blue on the shirt. Spectacles now penciled in. Still have the bulk of the work to do on the face and hair.[attachment=0:2u55dtzk]LSLawrence_1_detail-2.jpg[/attachment:2u55dtzk]
Sorry, didn't realize how BIG the image would be!
You obviously haven't lost the touch, I look forward to seeing various sequences until the completion.
W3MIV
09-29-2008, 07:54 AM
Some small progress.
W3MIV
09-30-2008, 11:48 AM
A little more progress, and also a pentimenti on the specs -- a bit asymmetrical in the lenses. Need to correct that. Still a long way to go, but it is moving ahead. Astonishing how much I have to relearn along the way![attachment=0:g9jpf2l8]IMG_2205_detail-093008.jpg[/attachment:g9jpf2l8]
WØTKX
09-30-2008, 01:42 PM
I can't help but thinking the expression on his face is because he's stifling a laugh. Which is probably your fault, right Albert?
W3MIV
09-30-2008, 02:21 PM
I can't help but thinking the expression on his face is because he's stifling a laugh. Which is probably your fault, right Albert?
Very perceptive. He is twenty years my senior, and he has been stifling that laugh through most of his life, so I cannot take credit. Very often, however, the guffaw breaks loose and his eyes overflow with tears of mirth.
K8WPJ
09-30-2008, 02:31 PM
I can't help but thinking the expression on his face is because he's stifling a laugh. Which is probably your fault, right Albert?
Very perceptive. He is twenty years my senior, and he has been stifling that laugh through most of his life, so I cannot take credit. Very often, however, the guffaw breaks loose and his eyes overflow with tears of mirth.
He appears to be quite the personality, even in the pic, albert. I'd bet it wouldn't be smart to run afoul of him..
very good work on the portrait... keep it up!
W3MIV
10-02-2008, 02:03 PM
More progress... still more pentimenti.
Dayum...
Good job Albert!
:drool:
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n4aud
10-08-2008, 11:08 PM
I am extremely impressed. A lot of the portraits I see look like they were done with a paint by numbers set, but your painting has life in it.
W3MIV
10-09-2008, 05:44 AM
TU all for your comments and compliments.
It is a struggle of surprising energy to try to shake off the excessive infatuation with detail that daily work in the graphics bidness instills in one over the course of so many years. Unconsciously, I find I gravitate back to what once were "good habits" but in painting are the mirror image of "good," and find I must relearn to substitute broad generalities for niggling particulars to recapture a looser style that gradually was inundated by a need for precision that now amounts to visual pettifogging.
As struggles go, however, this is a good one. :dance
KC2KFC
10-09-2008, 07:04 PM
Great job on the canvas. I've never been very good at painting or drawing, but I've studied it in order to understand light and shadow. I must say it is very impressive.
WØTKX
10-09-2008, 08:12 PM
Tho the laughing eyes are hidden a bit with the glasses, it's a great picture Albert...
Graphics bidness, eh? Don't render Every Blade of Grass in the scene, mmmk? :mrgreen:
I'm still kicking myself for not buying 3ds Max when I was employed in the AutoDesk "dealer channel".
KB9ZGB
10-09-2008, 08:28 PM
That is a wonderful way to honnor that man. very good of you to do so.
W3MIV
10-10-2008, 06:41 AM
Thanks. My father-in-law is a great guy. Country boy from rural VA; grew up poor as dirt, was drafted, then went off to WWII and served in the Fifteenth AF in N. Africa and Italy servicing B-24s. Salt-of-the-earth type of guy. He is almost always on the verge of laughter; one of those guys for whom life is too short to be a PITA about the small stuff.
I agree, nice work Albert. And an excellent way to honor what seems to be a very genuine man who served his country and family well. Nice job.
My talents are in music, but i like to noodle around with drawing, im not bad really, but you got me beat by quite a few brush strokes. :)
KB3LAZ
10-20-2008, 11:56 PM
I didnt know you could paint. I guess a person can learn something new every day( I have been told that all of my life). I have been to a few art museums and wish to return shortly. I have always found portraits to portray a vast respect for the person in which they represent. Very good work OM. Your talent is truly impressive.
W3MIV
02-15-2009, 11:25 AM
I forgot to post the final picture. Here it is, framed (temporarily) and awaiting a final varnish. Oil paintings need to dry a minimum of six months -- better twelve -- before receiving a final overcoat of varnish to protect them.
kc2orw
02-15-2009, 03:23 PM
I have now on my easel a portrait, which I must be insane to attempt after so long away from the easel. Nevertheless, I have begun. The image is of the "dead layer," or the grisaille, if you prefer. This layer will be overlaid by some thirty or forty thin glazes ("sfumato"). I shall try to post progress -- if I survive.
Obviously, the image did not come through, so I pasted a link.
http://w3miv.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!EFE50D5829857646!142/?&_c02_owner=1
The canvas is 16x20.
Has an interesting sculpted quality to it, yes nice. Are you working from a mirror, memory, photograph, or a combination?
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