Portrait painting
Ricardo Pontes
Any artists out there paint portraits. I would like to hear about getting
a good likeness in a portrait and drawing. It seems that i cant get a
likeness painting, because the paint is harder to control, any advice.
R. Alzofon
In article <326A85...@access.digex.net>, Ricardo Pontes
<sco...@access.digex.net> wrote:
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Ricardo,
I am a portrait artist. Getting a likeness is in large part getting
accurate relationships between the features -- a drawing issue. Your
angles and distances have to be in place. There are always a few critical
locations that define a particular person's likeness, and these
idiosyncrasies will make or break a likeness. Sometimes an error of an
eighth of an inch in a critical area will lose the likeness.
If your paint is giving you a hard time, this could distract you from
drawing issues. If the paint swings out too wide, piles up in distracting
areas, or goes too dark, light or muddy on you, it could mean losing the
essence of the subject. Sometimes repeated corrections cause feature
drift. There are many more conditions that will contribute to a good
likeness than features only -- compostion, gesture, lighting, color,
environment, paint handling, etc.
What kind of painting are you doing, e.g., oils, ala prima, large/small,
abstract? Your style can be accommodated to the portrait, so long as you
know what likeness is all about.
I would prefer to keep this discussion here, as lots of people will have
more to add, and some will be quite curious to read.
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R. Alzofon
http://art.net/~rebecca
Ricardo Pontes
* wrote:
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> On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Ricardo Pontes wrote:
>
> > Any artists out there paint portraits. I would like to hear about getting
> > a good likeness in a portrait and drawing. It seems that i cant get a
> > likeness painting, because the paint is harder to control, any advice.
> >
> >
>
> takes many years to make--not necessarily in its material production but
> in the honing of the artist's skill.Anyone here aware of the artist named Daniel Green. i seen a couple of
his stuff and it looks really good. Any idea on how his technique is. I
saw a magazine ad about videotapes on portrait painting, and they cost
70$ each. It is a very big rip off, i would like to learn his techniques
but its crazy to spend 70$ on a vhs tape.
Ricardo Pontes
http://www.access.digex.net/~scorch/0.htm
my a
Bonnie Miller
Richard,
Sometimes local art leagues offer demonstrations, where renowned portrait
artists appear. I live on Long Island and I recall my teacher inviting
me to one such demo when Kinstler painted a portrait of a guest and
raffled it off.
Bonnyvil