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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
Posts: 1,114
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Could you post a photo of the uncropped original?
When you copy, I suggest that you copy the painting in proportion, i.e., don't crop. The Old Masters have much to teach us about composition. I think that you missed an important lesson by cropping this portrait.
After photography came into common use, "close cropped" figures seem to have become the standard that we see in the popular media. Photography is not painting of course but unfortunately our eyes have grown used to the way this looks.
The Old Masters knew how to use negative space in painting to good advantage. Cropping really will destroy the composition of fine older works of art by the Masters and ought to be avoided.
Other than the crop, I think that you have done a fine job on this copy.
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