Open Figure Drawing Workshop - Caravaggio Master Copy / Reference - with Rebeccak 015

#121

Maladie,

Hehe, glad the animated gif was helpful! :slight_smile:

A bit of an update on the table:

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#122

Rebecca thst is really top notch work.

Well done.

-R

#123

Hi everyone,

I decided to do more working on the picture, though I know I have a wrong-colored Ref lol and I am a chaotic nooooobee. I told myself, that I do not to be perfekt as the other user here. It could be wrong with everything, but how could I ever learn doing this if I don’t try.

Try to place the items in right position.

LG,
Ellie

#124

Hi…Elliepower // Marion…:slight_smile:

I think that your painting looks …GREAT…your colors are …FANTASTIC…:thumbsup:
I think that if you put some rich gold and coppers, reds, blacks ect. into that table of food
and really concentrate on the details there, like Caravaggio did, you’ll have yourself a winner.
I was just reading that he got himself into a lot of trouble with the other painters of his time,
by making his still lifes look just as detailed and important as the human figures…really went
against the grain of the time I guess…but in the end, it is what made his paintings better
than everyone elses of that time period.:scream:
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK ON THIS ONE…REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR
PROGRESSION.:thumbsup:

TAKE CARE
Glenn

#125

Rob,

Thanks! :slight_smile:

Elliepower,

You are doing a great job! Color is actually the easiest thing to change, if you are unhappy with your colors. You can adjust color very easily in PS using Image > Adjustments > Hue / Saturation or Selective Color, etc. :slight_smile:

Keep going, this is looking really good! :thumbsup:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#126

An update from yesterday ~ will have to move the left character over more to the left to accomodate the table items…for now I’ve cut into his arm, but he’s on a different layer, so should be fairly easy to move. :slight_smile:

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#127

Elliepower, could you tell me how you made your background? I want to use something similar for a painting of my own. Good to see you continue, btw!:slight_smile:

#128

Hi Maladie,

the first time I took the speckled brush, but the edges are too sharpen so that it looks bad. Now I tried out a bit round brush with soften edges and then tip-tip-tip the main colors with high transparency for the brush, with a very small view of the picture (or the navigator’s view), so that I can control the colors. Hard to explain, hope you understand what I mean. First I took very saturated colors and went back to the dark and desatureted ones. It is easy, cause I overpaint so often until it hast the look I want it to. Hehe, this is botching? I don’t know.

So here is my update, the food is horrible to paint, so many details. I changed the colors by desaturate the old pic and took the new colors by hand. I am not satisfied at all with this, the hand of the priest is terrible, hmm, there ist a lot of things I don’t like. Ah, and the background is totally new.

I think in the end my version is more an illustration then a copy.

LG,
Ellie

#129

Ellie,

You shouldn’t be so hard on yourself ~ this is new, and you’ve tackled a Master Painting ~ which is brave, because these painters were not called Masters for no reason. :wink: Actually, doing a copy for me just greatly increases my respect for the original work, which is really impossible to match in it’s perfection. The purpose of doing these Master Copies is really to lift our own level of ability, which will be greater than our previous level of ability, even if it will never match that of the Master Artists whose works we’re using as reference. :slight_smile: So no worries. :wink:

Keep at it, you’re doing a great job!

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#130

Hi Rebeccak,

yeah, yesterday I went to the Hamburger Kunsthalle and I was very… ooooh, aaaah… don’t find a word in english. There were a lot beautiful pictures and the artists who painted them were genius people.

And it is another feeling to look at those paintings in real and not “only” digitally versions.

It is fantastic how people can work out such details 600 and more years ago, and I recognized very hard they did not have the “go back”-button. rofl

Bye,
Ellie

#131

wow , great progress everyone … the speed you’re all going on is hardly believable !
Definitely awesome for me to see your differents approaches you guys are going with on this …
especially considering that Caravaggio is one of my favorite painter from yore … eggggselent ! :slight_smile:

@ Spirit Dreamer : always so nice to see your different approach of the theme !

@ Digital Sol : just wow !! :eek:

@ Rebecca : amazing progress , so nice to you to share your PS stack … I have to save this somewhere …
OT spam : … and sweet new avatar :love: … and now I have to crack the wmp code ! :scream:

cheers everyone !

-Zapan

#132

Eets Steph!!! :scream:

WMP = with my peeps! :smiley: My friend bought me these stuffed animals you see in the avatar ~ they’re called peeps ~ so now I have peeps! :smiley:

Chears, :slight_smile:

~RK

#133

Here is a most fantstic still life artist!

http://waheednasir.cgsociety.org/gallery/210440/

Mrs Spirit Dreamer’s favorite!

#134

Thanks for the link, Glenn! :slight_smile:

Latest update:

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#135

Rebecca that is beautiful!

#136

Yesterday I didn’t work at this, (too much work), well I spend 2 hours on this, hope u like.

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BTW Zapan: Thanks a lot.
Elliepower: That looks definately better with each day that u paint, congrats, great work.
Rebecca: Awesome job as ussual, my favorite is jesus’ head, great work at the foods.

Bye, had fun with this.

#137

Jack,

Thanks a lot! :slight_smile:

Enrique,

WOW, this is really taking off! :slight_smile: I love the leftmost character, you are really doing an amazing job with that! :smiley: Can’t wait to see further progress here!

I’m so excited about the Anatomy Forum’s new digs! :bounce:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#138

Thank u very much Rebecca, your advice about the contrast, really works. :smiley:

#139

A little study, wasn’t able to do more today…

I think I might just do some studies to learn from this, it seems like so much work. But we’ll see.

#140

Enrique,

That’s great, you’re welcome! :slight_smile:

Maladie,

WOW, that’s beautiful!! :thumbsup: Keep going with this, you are definitely on the right track here! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak