2.5-hour study of Sargent's portrait Vernon Lee. This is showing up really grayed out on the monitor; the skin tones are nice and vibrant in real life.
This is a 1.5-hr. copy of Sargent's famous Lady Agnew. I'm sure this could have benefited from some drawing/sketching out in order to get the proportions right, but I just launched right in without doing that (don't do that, people; do as I say, not as I do). I got tired at this point and stopped. This is on an old, previously-wiped masonite panel.
His paintings are soooo luscious. It's a joy just copying him. More art on my website: jalapfaff.com
I'm a painter (and writer and Spanish instructor) living in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. I studied classical art in an ARC (Art Renewal Center) school, Colorado Academy of Art, full-time for two years, in order to benefit from the rigorous atelier-style training. I am currently dedicated to exploring abstract and semi-abstract art, working in oil and also in soft pastel. I firmly believe that all human beings are creative, whether or not they have yet found an outlet for the innate creative urge, and that the creative arts are the highest form of human expression. Email me at: jala[at]jalapfaff.com
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