Our stolid Dan, from yesterday's alla prima class. Doesn't he look movie-star handsome?
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
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Our stolid Dan, from yesterday's alla prima class. Doesn't he look movie-star handsome?
More art on my website: jalapfaff.com
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Very nicely done. He does look like a movie star ... like he should have been on the old TV show "Dynasty" or "Dallas"!
Jala you continue to inspire me to do more portraits. May I ask you what colors you were using here for the main flesh color?
You always manage to capture such CHARACTER in your class paintings... I'm in awe!!
Leslie - I agree!
Karen - For the main flesh color, I use Richard Schmid's recipe: yellow ochre pale + terra rosa + white. You can neutralize with cobalt or black. So simple, so effective.
Very Leslie Nielsen! (You know, the old Airplane movies? "...and don't call me Shirley.")
Great colors, especially in those tricky (for me) shadow areas.
Marian - Thank you!
R - OMG, you're right!!
Great job, absolutely.
And I too love the tulip which you posted some days before.
Hi Jala! Love looking at your art! This portrait is very attractive, and not just because of the movie star type model. I can see Sargent's influence here, you are excellent at portraiture!!!
Again, such a great balance between your fully developed subject and loose unfinished background. Your warm shadows next to the cool light are fabulous!
He does look a little like Leslie Nielsen. Lot's of character captured here Jala - this is really great.
You've captures the expression and eyes. And he's handsome indeed. I also like the drizzled wash effect in the background - unusual. I noticed you had used that technique in a painting you posted a week or so ago. Great brushwork on the face and hair!
It's great, but I can't get past R.'s Leslie Nielson reference. LOL. He does!! Liz
Doris - Thank you.
Sandra - You flatter me! Ah, how I love Sargent.
Laurel, thank you. All the colors in this look better in person. (Of course, they always do, don't they?) Actually, has anyone out there ever had one look BETTER ON THE MONITOR than in real life? (It's happened to me a few times.) That's when you KNOW you're in trouble. :)
Brian M - It's scary how right R was when she pegged him.
Donald - Thank you. That's actually the default way we do our alla prima portraits in the class, i.e., the way that our instructor Michelle Philip taught us to (I'm referring to the drippy diluted imprimatura).
Liz - I know!!!! R, look what you've done!!! :D
Marian - Thanks very much!
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