Painterly Figures

**Odayga** · June 26th, 2008, 10:10 PM

Hey,
Does anyone here know who does great painterly expressive figures? [ lots of use of color in skin tone, a variety of brushstrokes, etc? ]
As of now I have a couple of other artists in mind that I can use for reference for my next painting
- Jenny Saville
- Odd Nerdrum

Also, who does really good skies? Jeff Soto's skies I do admire due to the fact that he has a lot of color interpretation and various things going on in his paintings.

Yup yup
All Help is most appreciated

Thanks!
Ashley

**enrigo** · June 26th, 2008, 10:24 PM

The oil painting demo by William Whitaker have a lot of tips on painting and using color in general http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=83405

One thing that really clicks for me is the tip that you should push your brush handling skill to the very edge to make it look expressive and spontaneous.

**Flake** · June 26th, 2008, 10:29 PM

Lipking

Boldini.

Drop the tiny text btw, it's not cute or clever.

**Elwell** · June 26th, 2008, 10:31 PM

Lucien Freud.

**Odayga** · June 26th, 2008, 11:15 PM

Thanks guys

**tensai** · June 27th, 2008, 02:18 AM

euan uglow

**krossj** · June 27th, 2008, 05:09 AM

alex kanevsky

**Chris Bennett** · June 27th, 2008, 05:16 AM

Lucien Freud, Euan Uglow, Alex Kanevsky!!!! You guys have nicked all the good ones!
Here's Anne Gail - a kind of amalgam of all those three:

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**timpaatkins** · June 27th, 2008, 05:37 AM

Rick Berry has been doing some really interesting abstracted figures lately.
http://www.rickberrystudio.com/

**Zaxser** · June 27th, 2008, 05:38 AM

Originally Posted by Chris Bennett

Lucien Freud, Euan Uglow, Alex Kanevsky!!!! You guys have nicked all the good ones!
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Does Fechin count?

**CCThrom** · June 27th, 2008, 09:03 AM

These 2 were all about skies...

Jacob van Ruisdael

William Turner

**~Faust~** · June 27th, 2008, 09:25 AM

Ben Snijders

**Odayga** · June 27th, 2008, 09:50 AM

Thanks. all your guys' hard work is most appreciated

**kev ferrara** · June 28th, 2008, 12:01 AM

Anders Zorn, Richard Schmid, Dan Gerhartz, Carolyn Anderson, Phil Hale, Zhaoming Wu, Pino, Sargent, Steve Huston, Skip Liepke, Saul Tepper, Juaquin Sorolla, Hongnian Zhang, Walter Biggs, William Merrit Chase, Lilian Westcott Hale, Whistler, Jeff Jones, Morgan Weistling, Nancy Guzik, Dan McCaw, Degas, Mary Cassatt, Mian Situ, Harvey Dunn,

**drd** · June 28th, 2008, 12:27 AM

Scott Burdick

**algenpfleger** · June 28th, 2008, 03:24 AM

Pino: http://www.pinoart.com/showcase.htm#

**Jabo** · June 28th, 2008, 09:37 AM

Sky: Rembrandt van Rijn, generally all of his windmill paintings.

**LjK_89** · June 28th, 2008, 03:44 PM

shaun ferguson does some interesting painterly portraits
http://www.shaunferguson.moonchart.org/gallery.htm

**Odayga** · June 28th, 2008, 05:11 PM

Thankyou very much

. Really appreciate all the help with reference!

**Blue** · June 28th, 2008, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by CCThrom

Probably one of my favorite landscapes of all time.

**grinn** · June 28th, 2008, 06:08 PM

Jeff Watts:

**Odayga** · June 28th, 2008, 08:32 PM

Thanks Grin

Jeffrey Watts is amazing.

**drd** · June 28th, 2008, 10:31 PM

Oh my fucking god Jeffrey Watts' work makes me drool

Its sooooo gooood holy bajeezus

AAAAHHHHHHHhhhhh man that's hot

Okay, I'm good now.

**Miles_** · June 29th, 2008, 05:49 PM

Holy shit man! that Jeff watts guys stuff is beautiful

**GriNGo** · June 29th, 2008, 06:15 PM

Egon Schielle & Gustav Klimt

**t11** · June 30th, 2008, 08:07 AM

Have another:

Steve Huston

although i see kev said it already but screw it! I'm posting IMAGES! who reads? pff...

&

Kent Williams
Who I didn't see mentioned.

**TASmith** · June 30th, 2008, 08:57 AM

by Kev:
"Anders Zorn, Richard Schmid, Dan Gerhartz, Carolyn Anderson, Phil Hale, Zhaoming Wu, Pino, Sargent, Steve Huston, Skip Liepke, Saul Tepper, Juaquin Sorolla, Hongnian Zhang, Walter Biggs, William Merrit Chase, Lilian Westcott Hale, Whistler, Jeff Jones, Morgan Weistling, Nancy Guzik, Dan McCaw, Degas, Mary Cassatt, Mian Situ, Harvey Dunn"

Man, please post some images!

**bhanu** · June 30th, 2008, 09:23 AM

jason alexander

**Bowlin** · June 30th, 2008, 09:40 AM

wow, that Steve Huston guy reminds me a lot of Phil Hale's stuff. That loose brushwork really adds to the action.

**t11** · June 30th, 2008, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by bhanu

jason alexander

other sites of JSA studiosection8 and his official website
i kinda wanted to mention him but figured i covered the painterly bases with williams as similar as they are they are different though. i kinda favor jason's work these days cuz it's darker and the Abe Sapien mini kicked butt but well... whatevs.

Originally Posted by Bowlin

wow, that Steve Huston guy reminds me a lot of Phil Hale's stuff. That loose brushwork really adds to the action.

I think there's an old thread around here somewhere with a lot of his stuff that's not featured on his site anymore since this is where I found out about him in the first place. Provided the links still exist.

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