Portraits

Watch artist Till Maginot create a hand-drawn portrait painting of a girl. This speed painting was created in Corel Painter 11.

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Here are some studio painting clips working on a portrait. See all our videos for tips covering all aspects of painting, and how to be successful as an artist. Full length shows will be aired early 2010′ while 1 – 2 hour, extended length DVD versions are also available as each episode is completed.

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am honeymooning in Duluth Minnesota area and live in Eau Claire, WI. I want to sit for a traditional sketched or painted portrait but cannot find anyplace that does this. I found several that you send in photos and they sketch them, this is not what I am looking for. Please Help getting married in JULY!!

Some places have an artist registry. Check to see if there is an artist council or listing of registered artists for that area. A good place to check would be at the city and county websites for the place you are visiting.

If you are, look at my painting on etsy: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26001420
If you like it, please buy it!

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i consider myself a very good painter, but not so great at drawing. i was never good at getting proportions. i am in an advanced painting class and i still grid out my faces and draw it on my canvas using the grid. this is how i originally learned to do it in my beginning painting classes.
also, is tracing using a projector or something similar cheating

Not cheating at all.
Most of the great Renaissance painters (and many artists since then) used similar aides and devices.
You do whatever it takes to get the result you want.

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Who is that man? Please serious answer only and quote your source. Is it a previous president?
Why was the painting changed??????????

If you find out I’ll add you to my contact and follow you around giving you points for good answers on others’ questions. Thanks!

Why was the painting changed??????????

Interesting… there is normally a WWII map hanging over that mantel !! http://whitehousemuseum.org/floor0/map-room.htm

I’m not familiar with the portrait, but it is doesn’t appear to be Andrew Jackson.

I’ve contacted the White House and White House Museum to get an answer….

The portrait is of Benjamin Henry Latrobe: a British-born American architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol (painting by Charles Willson Peale)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Latrobe

I’m still waiting for confirmation from the White House.

EDIT: Still waiting for a response from the White House, BUT… I would imagine they swapped the portrait and map because a press-aide or the photographer said "Gee, we want to take it in front of the mantel, BUT that map just doesn’t look right… HEY, let’s move this portrait of the "old guy" in there… YEAH, that will look GOOD !!"

I remember on several episodes of the "West Wing" the ‘consultants’ from the Clinton Admin added in such anecdotes to the script… how MANY of those in the administration would be unaware of the history of various rooms and the art within.

As far as I can tell no. I was there last Friday and I didn’t see it.

Here’s the website.

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/zoeken/search.jsp?query=Jan%20Van%20der%20Heyden&lang=en&start=0&focus=assets

My mum has this large of elvis and the way the eyes are painted make him look evil.My sister is scared shitless of this portrait and i;m like what’s wrong it’s just the king of rock n roll.lol

Mona lisa. Her smile just doesn’t look innocent

Jon Houglum demonstrates tonal drawing on an oil portrait.

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I’m looking for info about Rembrandt, particularly; Leonardo next and then contemporary portrait painters.

If you’re an "advanced painter" you don’t need a book of techniques–use your own. Advanced
painters don’t copy, they innovate and are true to themselves.,