2024
L'insegnante di pittura mi costringe una o due volte l'anno a prendere in mano i colori ad olio. È un materiale che non amo, nonostante in realtà mi sia più facile dipingere in questo modo. Ma odio l'odore, la facilità con cui ci si sporca, l'ingombro delle tele. Qui ho usato un cartone telato proprio per ingombrare meno.
Non è un'opera originale ma ripresa da qualche reference su internet di cui non ricordo l'autore originale.

#oilpainting #pittura #arte #art #MastoArt

2024
L'insegnante di pittura mi costringe una o due volte l'anno a prendere in mano i colori ad olio. È un materiale che non amo, nonostante in realtà mi sia più facile dipingere in questo modo. Ma odio l'odore, la facilità con cui ci si sporca, l'ingombro delle tele. Qui ho usato un cartone telato proprio per ingombrare meno.
Non è un'opera originale ma ripresa da qualche reference su internet di cui non ricordo l'autore originale.

#oilpainting #pittura #arte #art #MastoArt

Your art history post for today: by Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884), Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt, 1879, oil on canvas, 17 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (43.5 x 34.6 cm.), photo: Christie’s New York, 20 Oct 2022. #arthistory #portrait #portraitpainting #painting #oilpainting

Excerpt from the Lot Essay: “… in profile to focus on her form - clad in figure-hugging silk brocades, offset by an extravagant chiffon bow at the neck. Surface, thus exposed, contained soul. The eye ranges freely over the narrow seventeen-inch waist, the ramrod line of her back, the measurement between ear, nose and mouth, carefully calibrated, and the shock of unruly tresses tamed, it was said, by no more than two pins. By its very nature, a profile is more intimate than a full face; we observe without being observed. The mask is not in place and the eyes do not distract. In this instance, they cast their gaze upon a sculpture as a connoisseur might, and the piece Mlle Bernhardt delicately fingers is that of Orpheus, given to her to hold at this moment by Bastien-Lepage, in order to compliment and express her aspirations as a sculptor.”
Excerpt from the Lot Essay: “… in profile to focus on her form - clad in figure-hugging silk brocades, offset by an extravagant chiffon bow at the neck. Surface, thus exposed, contained soul. The eye ranges freely over the narrow seventeen-inch waist, the ramrod line of her back, the measurement between ear, nose and mouth, carefully calibrated, and the shock of unruly tresses tamed, it was said, by no more than two pins. By its very nature, a profile is more intimate than a full face; we observe without being observed. The mask is not in place and the eyes do not distract. In this instance, they cast their gaze upon a sculpture as a connoisseur might, and the piece Mlle Bernhardt delicately fingers is that of Orpheus, given to her to hold at this moment by Bastien-Lepage, in order to compliment and express her aspirations as a sculptor.”

Your art history post for today: by Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884), Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt, 1879, oil on canvas, 17 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (43.5 x 34.6 cm.), photo: Christie’s New York, 20 Oct 2022. #arthistory #portrait #portraitpainting #painting #oilpainting

Excerpt from the Lot Essay: “… in profile to focus on her form - clad in figure-hugging silk brocades, offset by an extravagant chiffon bow at the neck. Surface, thus exposed, contained soul. The eye ranges freely over the narrow seventeen-inch waist, the ramrod line of her back, the measurement between ear, nose and mouth, carefully calibrated, and the shock of unruly tresses tamed, it was said, by no more than two pins. By its very nature, a profile is more intimate than a full face; we observe without being observed. The mask is not in place and the eyes do not distract. In this instance, they cast their gaze upon a sculpture as a connoisseur might, and the piece Mlle Bernhardt delicately fingers is that of Orpheus, given to her to hold at this moment by Bastien-Lepage, in order to compliment and express her aspirations as a sculptor.”
Excerpt from the Lot Essay: “… in profile to focus on her form - clad in figure-hugging silk brocades, offset by an extravagant chiffon bow at the neck. Surface, thus exposed, contained soul. The eye ranges freely over the narrow seventeen-inch waist, the ramrod line of her back, the measurement between ear, nose and mouth, carefully calibrated, and the shock of unruly tresses tamed, it was said, by no more than two pins. By its very nature, a profile is more intimate than a full face; we observe without being observed. The mask is not in place and the eyes do not distract. In this instance, they cast their gaze upon a sculpture as a connoisseur might, and the piece Mlle Bernhardt delicately fingers is that of Orpheus, given to her to hold at this moment by Bastien-Lepage, in order to compliment and express her aspirations as a sculptor.”

🎥 Moving on, I finally reach the lion and work my way through the spikes to its face.
"If you want to make it even more evil, add much more spikes!"

#symbolism #oilpainting #painting #TraditionalArt

Me painting a lions head with oil paint. The lion consists of chrome spikes and lava inbetween.
Me painting a lions head with oil paint. The lion consists of chrome spikes and lava inbetween.