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Published: 2007-08-31 16:24:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1543; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 0
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Lately I've had a lot of Russian history buffs visiting my page, and I thought, "Well, what better means of shameless self-promotion than to paint Nicholas II?"
Nicholas was the last Tsar of Russia, and a really nice guy, as tsars go. He was a family man first, and would probably have much rather spent his time grilling burgers with his kids than running the largest country in the world.
At 7" by 11" this is a small watercolour portrait, but I think the likeness is pretty good.
Original available.
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Beautiful work. I really love the eyes. They look so expressive.
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Thank you! I'm a big Russian History fan - they aren't big sellers, but they make for pretty good samples for potential clients.
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Yeah, those guys who think you're a designer in the making because you've drawn the new fad in fashion!!
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WOW! I am so impressed with your work here - wonderful - I will add this account to my watch list x
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Thank you very much! I do a lot of people portraits around the end of the year; Nicholas was just for fun, though.
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It's a real beauty - I am very very impressed x
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thats just INCREDALE!
how can you draw realism?!
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Wow! Thanks very much! I'm really not very good at drawing - I usually just start with a really bad sketch and then "fix" it with the paint.
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hey no problem!your really good at painting....i wish i can be that good..
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Aw, thanks! Anybody can paint like that - it's all in the practice.
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hey no problem! i hope me practicing ill be good like that
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You did a great job on Nicholas II! The likeness is spot on. What a tragic story about the royal family....(I'm a history buff as well. 
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Thanks very much! I had been meaning to paint Nicholas for a long time. Yeah, I kind of figured Anna was goofing, but she really took in a lot of people; makes me wonder what form of mental illness she suffered from. Yep, I understand they've got everybody now. I figured they'd eventually turn up; kind of a load off the minds of those of us who've been following the story for so long.
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You know, it was kind of a let down for me. The mystery was gone then. I loved to think about it and wonder, you know? But it does put everything in place, which is how it should be. I suppose Anna suffered from delusion of granduer or something like that. She was very convincing...makes it all the more sad doesn't it? I think she really did believe herself to be Anastasia.
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Yeah, I think she did, too. Her real family had a history of mental illness, and she was suffering from pretty severe depression when they dragged her out of the canal.
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ooo, i remember learning about him in school!
amazing painting
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Thank you very much! I usually don't have any full-colour portraits lying around the gallery to show people who come in, so I thought I'd better do one as a sample.
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ooo, ic. well this one is a great sample
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Aww, you're too kind.
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Wow, you're an amazing painter!
Yes..that self promo worked, didn't it? XD
Nice colors and expression.
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Thank you so much! I've been meaning to paint him for a long time.
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Astonishing, yet again. He's got a very good expression, very cool
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Thanks very much! I've always liked his moustache, myself. In fact, I liked it so much I grew one just like it!
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ur welcome ^-^
lol cool
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Yes !! That's him ! Tsar Nicholas ! I read about your great aunt, Chris. Very interesting.
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Thanks! I've been meaning to paint him for a long time, so I promised someone taht I'd do it. That's the thing about promises - I'll always keep them eventually.
Great aunt Lotte must have been an interesting woman. I've been meaning to go through that trunk again.
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I think it's a very, very interesting trunk ! And I also think your great aunt must have been an interesting woman. Working for the tsar and his family.
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I don't know very much about her, but the trunk is really full of fascinating things; I'm not sure what her position was, exactly, but reading the letters and notes makes me think she was probably a seamstress.
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Seamstress ?? I don't know that word, Chris ....
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Sorry! That's a person who sews dresses. I think that's probably what she did.
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Sewing all day ? Without a sewing machine probably .... Stitches made by hand ..
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I imagine sew.
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Did I understand it wrong ? Sewing of clothes ?
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Yes! You got it right! I made a kind of a dumb joke - "I imagine sew" sounds like "I imagine so". Sorry. Kind of a silly joke, really.
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Chris, our joker !
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A friend of mine is doing his english assignment on the Romanovs.. So he's looked at heaps of pictures of the room where they all died and stuff xD;;
Great work! The shading on his face really caught my eye x3
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Thanks!
One of the reasons I'm such a big Russian history fan is that my great aunt Charlotte was a servant for these peeps. She returned to England with a big trunk full of pictures and letters - the few pictures of people are really interesting, because on the back she wrote things about the clothes; more her area of expertise, I think.
Thanks very much!
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There's all these apparent "strange markings" on the walls too. So many people have tried figuring out what they are xD
Wow! What a connection! That's really cool
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Splendid work!! The likeness is exemplary, you've caught his eye. The tones of the paint are fantastic too!!
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Thanks very much! The eyes were pretty difficult - they're really unusual; I very much appreciate the kind comment, particularly from you.
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Beautiful eyes! Rather kind expression. Good contrast, too!
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