Posted on 07/29/2022 5:26:33 AM PDT by RummyChick
If I could go back in time, I would have bought his paintings when he was still in Vienna.
DFW-U R funny.
Th3y would be worth a fortune today.
Not sure what DFW means?
Would have saved the world a lot of grief, too.
Meaning if Hitler could have made money painting, he wouldn’t have gotten into politics.
*Not sure what DFW means?*
dfwgator. Post #59. My bad.
Yes, the camera obscura. If you had to make a “pinhole camera” to see an eclipse, it’s the same sort of thing. There’s also the theory that the earlier Renaissance painters did things with mirrors, but that’s more controversial.
It sure would have. The world would be a much different place today if he had continued his painting instead.
Ah ok lol- had me comfused
These are actually quite good. Maybe there actually is some talent remaining in Hollywood after all. Who knew?
He has talent not one was like Hunter’s spit art.
Many painters in previous times cast an image on their canvas and painted over that. Using a template is not the sign of a bad artist. You can often see light lines on an old canvas under the painting that shows the required proportions, then a sketch to fit within those proportions to be painted over.
Johnny Depp fan here.
One technique for this sort of work (I call it ‘simplified hyper-realism’) is to grid the original, which can be any size and transfer that to the larger canvas proportionally gridded. Then you have a proportional (the difficult part) outline.
I used to do tapestries on a loom by drawing the original on lined notebook paper, assigning each line about 8” of the finished work (the working area available on my loom) and simply free-hand transferring whatever was within the lines on paper to the warp w/white tempera and liquid soap. Worked pretty well. I had a 6’ tall x about 42-inch butterfly wing that was a show piece for my display booth. Still have it, but it is too large for my present space. It used to hang in a stairwell.
The best art teacher where I used to live taught the grid method to her students and even the beginners had remarkable results.
Many an artist must envy the options available to the super rich who become artists, comfortable, roomy, heated studios, all of the highest quality materials your heart desires, a ready market when you produce.
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