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Oil, canvas...same sitter as Saint No. 33. She has irresistibly paintable features.I guess this is basically a study, yet I worked it till a completion that kinda goes beyond what I would consider a true "study". What I was doing was playing with my fields of black. Trying to work into them without losing the heavier chiaroscuro effect, but getting rid of that student "This is shadow, let's just paint black and lose form" kinda trap. I wanted to keep the volume of the subject. You know what I mean.
I was also playing with brush work. Using a heavier impasto surface as the underpainting (mostly in the hair).
But, because I can't focus a camera, and both of the things that I was doing don't photograph well. This post becomes kinda stupid.
I don't care what anybody says... You can't photograph an oil painting and have it be anything more than a photograph. All of the depth, all of the texture, all of the "life"...GONE.
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god dam every time I look back at your paintings i'm just in aw. like really dude, for one thing i effing suck with anything oil. i envy your ability to capture these things in traditional art so well. I love the subject.
lol eye is like fucking mind-blowing.
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This is very, very good. Not just in the technical sense either. It's literally a wonderful painting. Unless it's been sold I might get to see it if the gallery lets me in to browse. I think possibly my favourite painting of yours.
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good work, but why picture is so shurpen& Is it an camera effect?
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It's the camera. Shot in low lighting to avoid glare off the varnish. There are no little colored dots on the painting. It looks like ...paint.
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very beautiful work!!!! It's a pity that camera gave some dots...
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Schon! Do you work from live models, or photographs?
Also I worship the Venture Bros.
( sorry, that just slipped out. )
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It is not the same palette but, I think it's the same effect we can find in some paintings of De la Tour. Or in some il Caravaggio's paintings...
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This is really good. When I was browsing the gallery I almost mistook it for a photograph of someone.
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Good work, all the hardship has payed of.
I am always puzzled and mistified by the play of light, what I had been working on lately.
It is so true what you say about photographing paintings. I totaly agree.
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You have a great sense of lighting and composition. The blend of the skin tones is done beautifully. I am going to asume you are a fan of Carvagio. Im not sure if I spelled his name right. Spelling is not my stronge point, thank gods for spell check.
You work is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it with the world
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she looks like that girl from LOST, you know ... the one that got a bullet in her head. love the Rembrandt-mood in the colours and all ...
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I love your paintings Doc. You are the most amazing portrait painter! they are gorgeous.
I loved your description of your nose too, you have an intriguing look about you.
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I tip my hat to ye. That is one impressive painting, *wishes he could paint like that*
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gorgeous painting.. wonderful job capturing the gesture of the model that is uniquely theirs.
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This is so realistic!!! Wonderful artwork! You are a very talented artist.
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something like caravaggio or remebrant....
can see the whole thing is carefully done.
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Hmm... every one I seem to look at makes me like you more.
The eye is brilliant. x
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wouldn't say the depth and life is gone 'cause this picture is truly amazing!
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I would defintely agree, although my painting are absolutely inferior to anything ya kick out, iv spent some time behind the camera and it made all my paintings suck even more! I started to notice strange things, like doing a macroshot of a rose petal super upclose, you can see with your eyes these irridecent gold flecks, take a pic, and poof there not there. Im not even sure having a camera that take sstereoscopic which replicates the two eyes views even fix the problem. In most mediums rather music, dance, or painting/drawing invovle something called Sentics which are muscle movements whos firing off timings actually capture emotional states of the body. Thus crossing langauge barriers and the like. Its the elusive individual quality that translates into our art(our chi if thats an ok term to use), that somone how the digital medium misses. Analog after all is based on sine waves of almost infinite resolution, while digital is based on square wave similitudes or approximations. Btw Adore your work and your new pallete both lush-n-dynamic, wished ya lived near me, id have begged to be your apprentice...
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WOW! I LOVE your art man. its awesome.
I wanna ask you some tips if you dont mind. Im trying to start on oils. Do you use underpainting? People seems to work with Grisaille (b&w) or verdaccio (greenish), wich one do you like best?
Wich medium did you used for your glazing on this piece? I heard that the Gel Medium works better for glazing, instead of just adding loads of turpentine, is this so?
Kudos for your piece again! Really amazing!
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You should read my "Tips" [link] page. I go on and fucking on about turpentine as a medium.
To answer your question about the tone of my underpainting. I have tried a lot of different ways, and love none of them. I'm still figuring out what is best for me.
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Thanx a lot for your reply and your fantastic "tips" page, really helpful. I wish i could watch the TV series you wroted, but im afraid they dont run this show here in Brazil.
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Doc, iΒ΄ve read all your "tips" page. Got your point about turpentine, make it sense.
I just didnt get it what do you use as your medium... iΒ΄ve read somewhere around here about a "black oil", not sure if this is the correct term. Im afraid we dont have this on my country. What should be a good substitute? I wanna quit the damn turpentine, but im afraid that JUST the linseed oil is not enough as a medium, or am i wrong?
Sorry about the english!
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Thanx a lot for your reply, really useful. Keep comin the spectacular work, iΒ΄ll be watching! Thanx again!
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I'm very impressed!
your use of shadows reminds me Caravaggio...
I suppose he's among your fav painters...
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This girl really is beautiful, just look at her mouth! I think I like this one better than the other one of her even though it's just a "study", it has a very romantic feel to it. Th lighting really is beautiful
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She was a stunner. She was (and still is) a complete stranger to me. I stood in line behind her at a bank and admired her classic features. Then I got up my courage and asked her to sit for me... This is the result.
Yeah, sometimes the spontaneity of a study can snatch a freshness that gets clouded on the full piece.
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wonderful work mate. i was just reading your comment about photographing paintings and i agree that it can be extremely frustrating.
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This makes me sad because it makes me want to the real thing up close--
so beautiful.
How long have you been working in oils?
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I started painting in oils. Since my first work, it has always been the medium I was drawn to. Oils chose me, I had no say in the matter. I never used acrylics or even drew with a pencil. I learned how to paint before I could draw. As a matter of fact, I still draw more in Adobe Illustrator than I do with a pencil and paper. But to answer your question: for as long as I can remember.
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That's pretty admirable.
Your work leaves me at awe and while I recognize photocopies will never do a picture justice, it still is a sigh to see.
I wonder what it would truly look like up-close. (I doubt itβll loose its magic.)
Now I kind of wish I held such an affinity with my own medium of choice. :>
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Wow!! It is pretty sad when you try to take a pic, and you loose most of the texture, with how beautiful the images are, I am sure the original piece is brilliant!!
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My work more than shies in front of the camera, it cowers. I use oils in a way that most of my contemporaries can't or simply don't want to. I try to achieve a depth that can ONLY be seen when viewing the actual work. People think I am complaining in some desperate attempt to create a modesty or some such nonsense. It's not true. What is true is that until you have seen the object that this photo tried (and failed) to capture, you have never seen this painting. You have only seen a photograph. And let me tell ya, I'm a shitty photographer, so I apologize for wasting your time.
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Not at all, I totally know what you mean!! I have a colored pencil piece, and it is nowheres near the mastery that i see just in your photos of your work...but it is quite upsetting when I scan the piece into my gallery it does not have the waxy texture and shine and full brightness that the original piece has!! So I can relate...somewhat.. I am just glad you were able to show what you have accomplished, even if it is not to its full potential on the computer screen....upsetting that it does set limitations!! However the expressions are still priceless, and in my eyes, you have captured me as part of your audience!!
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Thanks... I am glad that you like the half of my work you can see on your screen. But I wish that I could find a way to upload the object. Those digital art people have no idea what they are missing... Be well, and thanks so much for your kind words. They mean more than I would ever let on. Crap! I think I just "let on"...
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LOL!!! Haahaa, I don't mind, feel free to "let on" 
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