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This is my version of a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.It's oil on canvas, 16x20 inches.
Here's a detail view of the face: [link]
I worked on it from June of 2009 to February 2010. The total time I spent on painting only was about 24 hours, usually in 1.5-hour sessions. In addition to that there was the drawing process and stuff like trying to figure out how to fix the features when they were awry (which took a pretty good chunk of time since it started to look weird
).My final blog post about it is here:
[link]
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Beautiful... oils always create such a lovely smoothness. I really need to play with them sometime.
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Thank you - yes they are very nice to work with! On canvas especially the blending and such can be very delightful
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How did people wear hats like that? They always look like they're just sitting unevenly on a pile of hair ready to fall off.
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Yah maybe they are strapped on or there is a clip or something, or they just move very slowly and carefully
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So I guess now you only have to worry about your piled up hair becoming even a little bit loose enough for the pins to become unfastened over the course of the day and you'll be fine. Avoid wind I guess.
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Yeah. Women went through some weird straights for fashion. I suppose they still do. XD
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The flesh tones on the face are great, they really make the skin look convincingly smooth.
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Thanks! I enjoyed painting on canvas (vs. panel) on this one, I think it was easier for me to blend stuff.
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Thanks! Yeah I used to think I would get bored on stuff with a lot of detail but for some reason painting is never tedious for me, that's one reason I keep doing it!
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So beautiful! Where did you learn to paint like this?
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Oh, thanks! I am self-taught from books and stuff; I do master studies like this partly in order to learn. I picked this one because I really liked it, it seemed possible, and it had a wide range of topics that I wanted to learn more about.
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This is so beautiful... I love how you captured the transparency of the lace.
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Ohhhh, I was aghast when I saw what painting you'd chosen -- I love this painting, and you did such a lovely job reproducing it!!! 
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Thanks! I wanna see the original sometime, that would be interesting. I saw other paintings by Greuze in Europe on a trip and they were all really amazing.
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It looks like it is an original painting from that era. Amazing.
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Oh, why thank you very much
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perfect features, with absolutely lovely technique.
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Oh cool, thanks! I had to redo the features a few times, it was quite a mess
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