Master copy After William Bouguereau*Work in progress....Oil on paper

[Muhammad Sida]

Hi
Here Ill be posting the latest update on my painting, since I've worked on the hands and the book I thought I should post some detail shots so that everyone would be up to date on how the painting is looking so far up close there is a lot of detail work I've painted that was just not visible in the previous posts, ISA tomorrow I'll start building up the portrait.
I've changed my medium (the previous one had too much oil) I used stand oil turpentine and dammar varnish 1-1-1 and as for the glaze I used the same contents only 4 times the amount of turpentine. Got it from Robert Massey's book.
I've been skumbling the tones of her right hand (our left) to build them up gradually, gave me some degree of control in that very tiny area specially in the fingers.
This has been one tough experience and I've been learning a lot from it..hopefully when I repaint it again I'll be much faster.... jk

Hope you all enjoy

[Muhammad Sida]

Hello, it's been a while I was busy again...zbrushing a full anatomy study does take some time plus the other portraits I've been working on which I'll be posting in this thread too right after this one...
Anyway I managed to play today and after fooling around with this for 4-5hours straight I decided to call it quits for today and post, there is still more to do to get the likeness right but ISA I'll be working on stage 2 next time..

I hope you all like it

[Muhammad Sida]

I had to stop working on the other one, I was busy with a 3D project.
It took me a long time working on the previous copy, the slow careful approch is just too slow...I learned a lot from it but I'd rather not do that again if I ever want a career in painting.
So I decided to start a new one this week...less mind more instinct.
This was more fun and less restrictive, basically you paint with the idea that if you make a mistake you can always paint over it or move things around if the paint is still wet.
The picture I painted from is not the best so I had to rely on some logic placement of color values and layers, in short I improvised.

I'll get back to the previous portrait right after this one.
Size is 4x6in 10x15cm.