Open Figure Drawing Workshop - Sorolla, Zorn, Leon Master Copy - with Rebeccak 017

#501

THANKS…Enrique…more work on this one than I imagined…but getting there slowly but surely…been admirering everyones work and progress for the last month…to many to comment on…I am not that great or fast at typing…but I think that every one has done a FANTASTIC JOB…REALLY INSPIREING…:thumbsup: :applause: :bounce:

OFDW 17
June 15, 2006

Hi Rebecca and Everyone

Worked on this a good part of the day. Fine tuning, colors, middle ground and foreground. Worked on baskets, faces, arms and hands etc.
Still alot of fine tuning to do.
But finally coming down the home stretch.

Take Care Glenn

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#502

After 34 pages all I can say is – amazing work, people. It’s been inspiring (by seeing how wonderful some of the finished results are!) and informative (to watch how people work in between stages).

I suppose I’m very late, but I thought I’d join in for something quick. I went for the first of the Sorolla head studies.

Painter, about 2,5-3 hours in total.

first three stages:

The first one isn’t very early on, because I forgot to save. :slight_smile: At any rate, I started by blocking in the main colours, trying to find the forms as I worked on them. This was done hastily, and I spent a lot of time in the next two steps correcting it, up to the point where I had to cut and paste his whole lower jaw, beard and all.


My palette – though I didn’t use all the colours. I mainly settled for ochres and umbers, and used the brighter colours as glazes so that it wouldn’t get too muddy. The blue wasn’t used at all – a simple grey worked where I thought I’d initially seen blue.
I found myself a lot of the time alternating between venetian red and raw umber (fifth on top row) a lot while working on the skin. I was quite at home with this, because I often use greens as shadows in my own skintones.

final image:

I liked the small red dot on the inner corner of his eye in the original – really makes a difference – so I copied it too. :slight_smile:

#503

Great to see all the fantastic progress here! :slight_smile:

eilidh,

Welcome aboard, it’s great to have you join us! Nice work so far, there is still til Sunday night to work on this ~ then OFDW 018 will start up. Hope you will join us for that as well! :slight_smile:

Keep up the great work everyone!

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#504

Amazing work Glenn, you have overpassed yourself with this one, congratulations. :applause:

eilidh, some really work there, a strong piece, your technique is pretty cool.

Here is an update for mine

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C&C are very welcome

#505

Morning everyone!

Glenn - I’m really amazed to see how your piece is coming along, it’s fascinating to see the close-ups and watch your progress

SaraD - great work with the face as always, now I’m curious to see what you do with the pelt…

eilidh - pretty much impressive for a quick copy, I like it

Enrique - your work with this terrible hat is as accurate and clean as the rest, respect again for your work with tiny details and your patience - can’t wait now to see the colored version…

Well, concerning patience…I’ve lost all of mine with this Bashi-Bazouk, so I declare this version as the final:D …

Have all a nice day!:wavey:

-sabrina

#506

Sabrina - very nice presence of the fabric in the jacket!

Hombre, where in Germany are you going to be? Got tickets? Tell me everything…:slight_smile:

Glenn,

there’s so much detail to get lost into when viewing this. Wonderful.

eilidh - God, I wish I was that efficient…:cry: Great work…

#507

worked on this area in the time between coming home and the start of Argentina vs. Serbia/Montenegro…:smiley:

#508

Thanks for the input, everyone :slight_smile:

DigitalSol, daWinky (and Rebecca) – pretty much everyone who’s taken that Bashi-Bazu is a brave soul in my eyes. :wink: Good work! DigitalSol, I can barely keep my eyes off the folds of his coat. It has captured the silk’s feel perfectly.

Mu, this looks very good – is it Painter? I think I am having some trouble making it out.

Rebecca, has it been mentioned anywhere what the choices for OFDW 18 will be? Has it been determined yet, or are you still open to suggestions?

#509

Enrique,

Looking great, let’s see that hat finished! :thumbsup:

Sabie,

I think you did a great job here, please don’t forget to post your hi~res version as a link as well. :slight_smile:

Mu,

Nice progress on this, I would mainly suggest to concentrate less on textures and more on value structure. Texture is quite simple to throw on top at a later time, what will really make or break the piece is the quality of the value relationships. :slight_smile:

eilidh,

I am still open to suggestions (and links!) :slight_smile: for pieces ~ usually I find Master Works from ArtRenewal.org, since they generally have large / hi~res images for copying. :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#510

Sabrina, Thanks so much for your comments, I must finish this one within these days, because Im loosing my patiente too :D, your looks great, congratulations.

eilidh, Thanks a lot for your coments, hope to see you at 18’s

Rebecca, Im on that right now :smiley:

Hey Mu, this is the plan, Ill be there in about 2 or 3 days, :D, Im going with 3 friends, since there are no direct flight from Mexico to Germany, we will go first to Spain, where I have a brother living, we will take him too, and we expect to be there for Mex vs Portugal, I bought the tickets 1 year ago one Fifa’s page. If we pass to the next round, maybe I will stay some more, maybe till the next 2 games, I have no enough money to stay more :sad: today plays Mexico, VIVA MEXICO!!:buttrock:

Here is where Im at.

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#511

Becca, don’t forget about your promises of ‘humans and animals’ for ODFW 18!

(I suggest durer’s hare)

#512

Enrique!

That match will be in Gelsenkirchen which is only 20-30km away from my place (Dortmund)!

When you are back from your match we could/should/have to meet in Dortmund, watch games together on the central square on these giant screens and party together…

that would be soo nice.

Make up your mind and let me know, man…!

:thumbsup:

#513

Hey Mu.:bounce:

That should be great, amazing idea, will e mail you when Im in Spain. Thanks a lot, I think that we would be alone, hehehe, that are the rewards for being a CG talker.

A bit sad I thought that Mexico should win against Angola, but 0’s… :sad:, let`s see what happend on the next one.

#514

I want to live in Germany too… envy
Here´s my update. Since I can´t skip it, I better start with the skin…

#515

Enrique…THANK YOU for the kind words of encouragement…:slight_smile:

Hi…daWinky …THANK YOU…Glad you enjoy this technique…closest I can get to paininting
with oils on the computer…no fancy tricks on this one…one layer,no grid,
and a lot of plain old fashioned … EYEBALLING…:scream: :slight_smile:

Hi …MR MU …THANK YOU… A LOT OF DETAILS …LOL … I GUESS:eek: …like one of those jig saw puzzels with ten thousend pieces, and all the pieces have colors that are really close to each oter…:scream:

TAKE CARE
Glenn

June 16, 2006

Hi Rebecca and Everyone

Worked on details of elderly woman on left. Trying to get colors as close to the original as I can using my own eyes and own judgement. Bouncing around and refining details as I go along.

Take Care
Glenn

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#516

Holy hide, Sara!

holds hands of LoTekk and SaraD together

Thou shalt be known as Lord and Lady Fur-guson…

The reflections on that pelt are already very convincing. Don’t forget to post detailed shots!

Enrique!

YAY! that’s gonna be soo much fun…:bounce:

You can send me a pm, an email, or an ICQ message.
Mexico had it in their hands today, man, I guess they figured they will get at least another point in their game vs Portugal and that this would be enough for the round of sixteen.
There were some Mexican fans on our square watching that game, but they had nothing to celebrate…:sad:

#517

A detailshot just for you, Mu :slight_smile:

#518

Here’s my start. I kinda traced over the photograph.

#519

Croatia in finale at WCGermany06…:slight_smile:

#520

workin more on the front drapery… and now I am off to watch Portugal-Iran…:smiley: