A portrait painting of a girl (Updated 2/18)

What do you think of Botticelli? Less realism to me but wonderful none the less. Titian is worthy of praise to me as much as Leonardo , Raphael and Michelangelo.

Yes!
I thought Mona Lisa too.
The lips are just beautiful.
Love this.
Well done.

I even like the nose.
It gives it character.

It's crazy to think that the best paintings in the world were made by people viewing through squinted or blurred vision... lol.

Great stuff. Reminds me of a George Tooker...atmospheric/ethereal.

So that was what I’ve been doing.I thought it was a detriment I shouldn’t allow myself to do.

it's greta thunberg?

BFD you are a fantastic artist!

I know you've shown your still life and now a portrait.

How are you with landscapes?

I'm not a fan of Botticelli... Da Vinci took some shots at him in his writings as a "painter of blue and gold" or something like that lol.

I love Michelangelo's sculpture, but not so much his painting.

Titian is amazing.

To think he lived to be almost 100 is pretty crazy.

Last Edited by BFD on 02/01/2023 12:39 PM

What about Gustav Klimt? His erotica intrigued me. I love his use of gold and symbolism. Would loved to have known him.He was a short man but a mystery no doubt

Last Edited by Music muse on 02/01/2023 12:44 PM

Although I love realism I also admire Kandinsky, Klee even Chagall. I must have Russian somewhere in my blood contrary to my DNA results.

There were some incredible Russian realists.

It’s a privilege to see your progress, BFD. Thank you for sharing.
She has the confidence of the Mona Lisa and the mystery of the painting of Pocahontas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

https://imgur.com/a/lDKmjwt

Gerome was awesome!

Same with Charles Bargue.

Landscape is on my bucket list for this year... I've already composed them, just need to actually paint them.

But, this is the year for that so I'll share one when I get it going.



Last Edited by BFD on 02/01/2023 01:20 PM

Well it's about what you want to achieve more than anything.

I just think it's a good idea to start with realistic representations to have a basis to start from, that way you have the skills to add whatever you want into your art, rather than cut and paste, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Art has become more about intellectualizing rather than accurate representations, that and social circles, and in crowds.

The pretty art I create sells, and the artistic social circles turn their noses up at it.

Excellent painting as always but that is quite the bulbous schnoz. Portraits are very hard to do (realistically) but I would put hands and certain textures in the same category of difficulty.

I'm going to be shrinking it down a bit more for sure... I just need to wait for it to dry before I do that.

Today I'm going to paint some of the clothing.

Yeah nose needs to come in.

As to gain beauty.

Long noses are probably best ( better than 2nd Miss Piggy noses )

But read they need to still be in proportion with face.

Then fix jaw line.

It looks like all's you did was lighten it. The nose still looks like Marcia Brady's when she got hit in the face with a football.

You said you can move mountains, but still can't get that nose trimmed down.

Also, now that its lighter, she looks like she has a bit of a kool-aid mustache going on the left side.

This is one of the most impressive creations posted on GLP, ever.

Not knowing you or your work, I clicked expecting to see a "good attempt" from an advanced art student in portraiture.

Instead, I was transfixed.

You have captured the ethereal quality that has brought her to life and this can't be taught in a classroom. Your work rivals that of any well-known Master Painter.

Thank you for sharing your gift. I look forward to seeing the finished piece and any others you'd like to share.

Thinner nose but same length. Adjust jawline.

A classic beauty.

I didn't lighten anything, it's just a different exposure setting with my camera.

Look at the width of the bridge of the nose, it's narrower.

I also did a bit more modeling of the tip of the nose but this is the arena to iron these things out before moving to color.

https://imgur.com/a/bbwW6hD

Thank you for sharing.

Wow man, koodo's to you. Portraits are hard as hell to keep from looking cartoonish, and you've beaten that in spades. She even looks familiar somehow.

You're far too kind...

Outside of the technical aspects of painting, you're 100% right that having some sort of "taste" or ideal, whether it be in the subjects themselves, or the specific way in which you deviate from nature, all add up to a very specific "look".

The Old Masters thing, that harks back to antiquity at it's root.

I have to draw in pencil first. With the nose you could get away with just a bit shading down each side and underneath. Nobody is perfect and I think that’s one of the things I like about this painting so don’t change the nose too much or it will just look like any other painting
Excellent work

Last Edited by Cath2756 on 02/01/2023 01:52 PM

ChatGP can create art now. You simply type in what you want it to create, and it renders a painting, a photo, an essay, most anything you ask it to do. That's what the AC was referring to, I think.