Painting skin in a portrait requires painting the skin tones according to the subject. Learn how to paint skin tones in an alternative portrait in this free video.
Expert: Matt Cail
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Bio: Matt Cail is an artist who works in oil, water color and acrylic paints, among others.
Filmmaker: randy primm
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James Kalm takes a brisk walk through a collection of recent portrait paintings by Francesco Clemente. Having embraced his position as the court portraitist to New York’s social elite, Clemente brings a sense of irony and a dash of satire to his elegantly naive depictions of the rich and famous.
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I have to pick a portrait of a woman to copy in art class. I really like the painting Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, but my art teacher said that the background was too hard and suggested that I do something different. I’m wondering if there are perhaps portraits similar in mood. I want something that’s more about darkness and light…metaphorically and physically speaking.
What about Whistler’s painting of his mother? Also known as arrangement in Grey and Black http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler’s_Mother
Or Picasso’s Girl facing a Mirror – two sides of her personality – light and dark, innocent girl, wordly woman shown in this pic. described at http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78311
Tribute to the King of Pop Michael Jackson – Acrylic Portrait by Frank Wagtmans: www.frankwagtmans.com
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portrait paintings of faces or people with totally back backgrounds and only half lit faces?? also any artists that used mirrors alot in their portraits? thanks xxx
Mirrors (or looking glasses) – Venus is often portrayed with a mirror. Have a look at the Rokeby Venus by Velazquez in the National Gallery, London, also the Arnolfini Marriage by Van Eyck in the same place. I’m sure Tamara de Lempicka also portrayed some of her subjects in front of, or holding looking glasses and mirrors.
1. 2 Elephants one on each side facing each other with very long skinny legs with what looks like a tower on their back and a red to yellow fade in the background.
2. a portrait painting main focal point is a woman with a bearded man sitting next to her its located in a diner.
1. Twinkie House is right, the painting is called "Les Elephants" and comes from the painting "The Temptation of St. Anthony" by Salvador Dali (see links 1 and 2)
2. Again, I think Twinkie House could be right, but this is a little more difficult as your decription is not so good. It could be "Thw Waitress" or it could be "The Bar at the Folies-Bergere"……..or it might be neither of those. (see links 3 and 4)
James Kalm takes a brisk walk through a collection of recent portrait paintings by Francesco Clemente. Having embraced his position as the court portraitist to New York’s social elite, Clemente brings a sense of irony and a dash of satire to his elegantly naive depictions of the rich and famous.
Duration : 0:9:15
I’ve ran out of the old enamels and oil paints and temperas I was using to get these effects, so this is the last of the fluid paint paintings I’ll be wasting good canvas on. But for good measure I painted in, actually manipulated in, a face (almost a self-portrait) in this one. Can you find the portrait? I’m hoping it’s obvious enough when you enlarge the image.
By the way, it’s called ‘Eye Candy,’ in honor of Zoltar, (who is a Yahoo regular and a damn good artist himself) and the description he used to classify this type of creative tomfoolery I’ve been playing with. So now it’s time to go back to the more ’serious’ kind of art.
http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/0005d1rt/g16
(You’ll probably have to enlarge the image to find the portrait.)
Have fun.
Bottom right pane… upper left corner?
Its just a portrait
At the time it was painted, the Mona Lisa was ground breaking. Portraits were common, however, the subject was always painted in profile and never shown with any hint of a smile. As we all know, the Mona Lisa is smiling and facing forward. Her body is arranged in a soft pyramid and the contrast of her light face to her dark hair draws the viewer’s eyes in. She is subtly mysterious and enchanting.
It may not be the greatest painting aesthetically to the modern eye, but the Mona Lisa has sparked more intrigue that any other painting in history.
I am in need of doing a case subject dealing with the grey quarter horse. I am familiar with Orren Mixer’s works. But was unsuccessful in finding what I am looking for. I would appreciate it if someone would be willing to hand me a link to some actual good paintings of some grey quarterhorses. Thanks!
Good luck with that project.
Allow me to offer one caveat. If your client has asked you to do a portrait of a specific horse, you had better believe that he/she will know if it’s his or her horse. A generic picture of any grey quarter horse may not do, at all!
I did a portrait of a woman’s two poodles, working from her own photgraph. When done, she was fine with the way I captured ONE dog, but said that the other looked nothing like hers. I, frankly couldn’t tell the difference between the dogs in the photo, much less from the portrait. No less than THREE reworks later, I gave up and refunded the lady her money.
Good luck and take care.