Comments | edouard_batlle: 7th April 2011

edouard_batlle

7th April 2011

Apr 07, 2011 20:23

I conquered my fear of the blank canvas today! I started the portrait of the girlfriend that I preped for about 2 weeks ago. Before I started I had another look at the sketches I'd done, and made an executive decision to very loosely follow it. The problem I thought I'd have, if I'd stuck to what I planned, was that the piece would look ( Read more... )

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edouard_batlle April 7 2011, 20:52:54 UTC

Thankyou!! My tutors always encouraged me to work outside my "comfort zone" I was definately doing that today lol

chocolatemamba April 7 2011, 22:07:16 UTC

Wow that painting if big. This picture did not start out the way I thought at all....its nice to see how you work. Also, I can see the simplification of the 'perspective' in Iconoclastic work, esp in the 3rd and 4th photo.

You're eyes are still drawn to the face...its obviously been positioned a bit off-center....but I think you've preserved the effect. The confident brush strokes help.

edouard_batlle April 7 2011, 22:19:35 UTC

Ok yeah, I probably should have said something about that. When I was younger some art historian told me that in a lot of classical portraits the face is slightly off center so that the point where the eye meets the nose is in the center. I wish i could remember the explaination as to why. Because I'd been using icons and classical portarits as inspiration I wanted to maintain that kind of "art rule".

It is pretty big too (1 x 1.2 meters) I'd forgotten how awkward canvases that size are! lol

Thanks honey x