Practice, Practice, Practice
Painting from the masters is my second favourite way to gain insights as a painter (favourite of course being direct study from real life). So here's a few recent ones. From the top: After Jeremy Lipking, after J.C. Leyendecker, after Morgan Weistling, and finally, after John Singer Sargent.
posted by Marco Bucci at 10:13 PM
22 Comments:
Holy cow Marco! Nice colors and brush strokes!
I love the last one, the portrait by J.S.Sargent.
nice studies! Nice picks too.
NICE STUFF MAN! Love your brushwork!
oooooo! Nicely done!! Fantastic portrait studies Marco!
great post Marco, this is really nice work man!
Wow, what a practice man. Excellent stroke.
These are awesome! I love them all.
Hi- I just came across your blog, you have some great stuff here. These are really nice, I especially like the Lipking one.
Great studies!
Very nice studies. Really like the monster piece below too.
i like your character in particular the monster under the bad eheheheh ;) really good stuff
Excelent studies man!!.. I didn't know the three first artists.. but I will check them now..
WOW! WOW!! ARe you sure these are merely practise?
i really dig the soft color in these. Fantastic work!
nice nice stuff..
J.C. Leyendecker!?! Wow man. You are a champion. These are such nice studies.
Up until recently, I've felt the strong need to not study directly from other artists, but I don't even know where that came from. I've been learning so much from my recent studies from the masters.
Great image,
Joe
Thanks guys!
Joe - I know some artists who don't like to study directly from master's paintings. I don't think that's a bad mindset to have...as long as you're still willing to observe and learn from their use of value/colour/calligraphy, etc. I just find doing a study directly trying to mimic their original piece is the best way to gain that insight.
Thanks for your comment!
nice studies
absolument fantastique! quelle technique! c'est superbe! Awesome job!
Marco, nice ones. Like the Weistling copy. Hey you weren't kidding about the Lipking vid.. that thing should come with a pillow! lol
Love the top one of the ladies profile.very nice SWEEEEET~T
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