Portraits

Im 19 and Ive been using images from the internet to draw. Celebrities mainly, to progress my skills. But now I want to start producing art that is mine but not sure where to get reliable sources and Im not interested in the idea of family and friends to draw from.

Use your imagination. But I believe every artist uses reference picture anyway to draw good portraits

It is debatable among frum rabbinic authorities (some say yes ,others no), i heard one frum (observant ) Sculptor got around this issue of idolatry by only creating kinetic art.

Does the National Portrait Gallery in DC still have Stephen Colbert’s portrait on display?? If so, where is it?? I heard it was near a bathroom, but I’m sure the museum has several bathrooms. And are you allowed to take a picture of it??

On January 16, 2008, the "3-deep" Colbert portrait was placed on display "right between the bathrooms near the ‘America’s Presidents’ exhibit" at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. After first being rejected by the National Museum of American History, Colbert petitioned the Smithsonian to display his portrait, who agreed to "go along with the joke", though they stressed that it was only temporary. Colbert said "I don’t mean to brag, but as it contains three portraits, my portrait has more portraits than any other portrait in the National Portrait Gallery!" The portrait was then put on display at the Smithsonian until April 13. On October 16, 2008, the 3-deep portrait was officially donated to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s American Treasures exhibit. At the end of that show, a new 5-deep portrait was unveiled, with the newest Colbert holding his newly-won Emmy with another Emmy and a Peabody by the mantle.

today my class went to the art gallery/museum and saw a huge portrait and i was wondering if anyone knew what it is called..

it is REALLY big , like it takes up a whole wall, and it is blue/purple, then red/orange, then blue/purple again ..

so if you know it thanxx so much

Famous piece called "Voice of Fire". Cost over a million back in the day and people that don’t appreciate art caused a fuss about it.

Barnett Newman
Voice of Fire 1967

acrylic on canvas
543.6 x 243.8 cm
Purchased 1989
National Gallery of Canada (no. 30502)

I love taking photos but ive run out of interesting ideas!
I want something similar to this-
http://bylaauraa.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2s04o9

Any websites with self portraits of people would be loved, not DeviantArt though.

Thank you!

I don’t know if you’ve done these before:
Draw a sketch of something random that you can put up on a part of your face. Maybe like a clown smile or a mustache.
Dress up from different eras; Victorian, Greek, Medieval

Ummmm. Yeah.

I found a beautiful portrait of a girl at a garage sale. the portrait doesn’t have an artist’s name on it and google searching isn’t helping either. I would love to find out more about it, is there a website i could use to find more about this print?

http://tineye.com/login – check this site, it helps you find original images and can even find pics which have been partially altered. FireFox users may install the "tineye"-plugin.

Speaks for itself really, but for my photography second a level year and we’re doing a piece on self portraiture and would like to find some photographers that do some contemporary self portraiture… preferably a young male photographer

much help would be appreciated thank you very much

There is a huge list if you google, and the first Google entry is Images – fantastic. I googled "male photographers self portraits".

Female photographers – the supreme one is Cindy Sherman, who has used her own body as her subject all her working life. You would not gain points, and even lose some, if you do not mention her. Also, Nan Goldin has used both herself and members of her family, as subjects.

Do you sketch it in charcoal is that common? what do I use for the sketch or whatever.

i never use charcoal, not sure if it does anything to the paint or whatever though.

basically when oil painting, you can use a primer to prepare your canvas first OR you can skip straight to step two.

step two is mixing, in equal ratio, blue, red and yellow oil paint, or you can use brown paint if you so desire.

step three, using the paint, paint an outline (just lines) of the main subjects.

step four, use the same paint to determine where shadows are going to be and add them in with the same brown paint.

step five, gradually add colour and then continue on with your basic picture, then adding detail until the end.

using the oil paint as the outline is a fantastic way to approach it as:
since oil takes forever to dry, it blends in, as opposed to having pencil lines or black charcoal smudges on your canvas.
you aren’t changing mediums, and it is faster.

QUICK NOTE:
keep some white paint handy to go over accidental lines during the outline step.

hope i have helped.

I’m looking for an artist who focuses mainly on portraits to study as part of my A level course. I’m interested in art that makes a statement, i also like ‘gritty’ and dark artwork. It’s preferable that the artist is modern and they MUST be reasonably well established.
I’m allso interested in the use of text within artwork.

Try Lucian Freud, who can certainly be described as a "portrait artist," though portraiture isn’t entirely his genre. As he says, he likes to paint people, and his work is often quite "grittt," or at least stark.

there was a video somewhere that was a guy dancing and painting at the same time. he was painting jesus but you couldnt really see until he turned the painting upside down. where could i find that? please provide a link?

I believe this is the video you’re referencing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=W6l0tjOg-EY&feature=related

It’s very inspiring.

~ Peace : )