Master Copy Workshop

[yboo]

Study of "la femme accoudee", by Fernand Toussaint....

[yboo]

Some more Caravaggio details...

[yboo]

Studies from Mucha..

[Lawrence Humphrey]

My gosh Yaboo all your hard work is really paying off.

[yboo]

Hi Lawrence well, the thread said master studies

[Lyraina]

Nice to see this thread still alive, I enjoyed looking through it already quite some time ago.
Here's my attempt, hoping it will help me with skin tones.

Bouguereau - Head Of A Young Girl (1898)

[Jansi]

A Schreyer, not aiming for accuracy.

[000]

Jansi that is really good! The picture is really powerful.

I attempted a Sargent master copy yesterday but couldn't even get the basic shape of the face. I will try to sketch it out in pencil and try again, though.

[stesani]

Hi all,

I copied a part of Da Vinci's "Study of Hands". I would like some more master artists/drawings to copy for my drawing class but am having a hard time finding one that I can semi-enjoy copying.

[joannaswan]

noob here: is there a thread of actual copy the masters assignments? If not, someone should start one. I'd love a weekly tandem post, focusing on various styles and masterworks...
thoughts?

[Sencer Aygün]

Reproduction [detail] of Tiziano Vecellio's;
"Portrait Of Francesco Maria Della Rovere Duke Of Urbino"

Painting duration: 4.5 hours
Painting process video:

[ironchicken]

In case you dont know it masters studies week. There are a lot of studies being posted in this thread. Come on and try.
Here are two studies I completed in the past few months. Both are copies of Abram Arkhipovs works.

[Lyraina]

noob here: is there a thread of actual copy the masters assignments? If not, someone should start one. I'd love a weekly tandem post, focusing on various styles and masterworks...
thoughts?

I like that idea, don't know if something like this is around yet...

A Young Peasant Boy, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1763)
A bit older, tried to only use the hard round brush, no smudge or custom brushes.

[joannaswan]

So here's my latest master copy. It's after Edouard Manet's "The Balcony" (detail), 1868-69, Oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay.

I used pastel and then a bit of acrylic to blue out the background. I was also interested in Betty Edwards' color assignment that has you using only complementary colors plus black/white. So I tried using mostly green and red for that reason.

Crits? Comments?

PS: can someone help me figure out how to resize my attachment? sryz...

[Lyraina]

PS: can someone help me figure out how to resize my attachment? sryz...

Why don't you just resize it before uploading? I don't know if it is possible afterwards...


Link to original painting by William Clarke Wontner (1916).

[Sencer Aygün]

I tried to make a copy of "Peter Paul Rubens - Two Satyrs" [with oils].

[ironchicken]

This is a master study of a work attributed to Jean Jaques de Boissieus A Male Saint (1781). I saw this painting on the Sothebys auction site.

[yboo]

[DvrJeroen]

Study of 'The rapture of psyche' by William Bouguereau (1895)

[ironchicken]

This portrait by Repin appears with all sorts of hues on the web. I don't know which version is closest to the true work as I have never seen it. I copied one of the more vibrant copies. I took about 6 h over this.

[agentwd40]

How about some Joe Mad?

[Sida870]

Hello, it's my 1st post here...I'm new to the Forum.
I've painted these as a practice I found the pictures of the paintings on the internet and downloaded them....at that time I just wanted to look at he pictures didn't give much thought about the names of the painters...when I painted these I wanted to know the names but I couldn't find them...if anyone knows who painted these I would appreciate it very much.
1st one is of an exotic dancer dimensions of the master copy are 10x15cm oil on canvas.
2nd one is a portrait dimensions of the master copy are 8x10cm oil on canvas.
Detail
Detail
I hope someone would know the name of the artists who painted these.
Critiques would be nice too to have.

[mburrell]

This is a 20' high copy of Whisler's Mother done on bill board for Domino's pizza done back in the 80's:

[dancinfool]

this is a regular old cloth orgy. Obviously its a work in progress, faces need doing and the modeling needs to be tightened up...pretty happy with the overall color/value scheme though

[dancinfool]

Copy of a Sorolla

[JVL]

here is a Prud'hon copy i did a bit ago.

mine:


original:

Just suggesting people upload actual originals for comparison.

[davidwilson920]

my vermeer copy. This painting took about 3 months

[davidwilson920]

michelangelo copy. Im new to the site. Does anyone know how to rotate image?

[ironchicken]

Here is a copy of Arkhipovs 'The Washer Women' I completed a few weeks ago.
JVLs suggestion is a good one re showing the original. You can see how it is supposed to look here.
Oil on board. Approximately 90 x 45 cm.

[Rostas]

Well , i see nobody has posted for a while here. Might as well post my Master Studies. I kept them at 40 mins each. I've done 2 each day for the past couple of days except for the first one which isn't part of this batch and the first I stayed longer on it. Probably 2 and a half hours. Going towards a week like with my self-portraits. Hope you like.