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Sargent Portrait Drawing Copy, Part 4: Light, Value and Form

October 31, 2010 By: Paul24 Comments

This post is the culmination of an exercise in which I copied a sargent portrait drawing. The first postwas primarily concerned with laying out and measuring, picking out some anchor points and getting them established. Thesecond post continued with the laying out in two dimensions, establishing the main shapes. In thethird post I developed the

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Sargent Portrait Drawing Copy, Part 3: Planes and Forms

February 28, 2010 By: Paul31 Comments

This is the third post in a series devoted to a copy of a Sargent portrait drawing. This is more than an exercise in copying,however. Whilst I do hope to finish with a good copy of the portrait, I’m not looking for an exact copy, mark for mark.In fact, I’m much more interested in the

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Sargent Portrait Drawing Copy, Part 2: Establishing The Big Shapes

September 16, 2009 By: Paul27 Comments

In the last post of this series, I’d set up the easel (and then drivelled on at some length as usual),put in my central line and madethe first few marks, establishing the main points of the head along the centre line. Now I can start to establish the size andoverall shape of the head. The

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Sargent Portrait Drawing Copy, Part 1

September 13, 2009 By: Paul26 Comments

This is the first in a series of posts which will go through my current approach to copying a portrait drawing. I’m doing it in theform of an exercise, which I hope will be useful to people, and so I’ll be going into some detail as I go through it -even more than usual. Thelimitations

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Old Master Drawing Copy – Gabriel Faure by John Singer Sargent

April 23, 2006 By: Paulcomment

click for enlargementI chose this drawing to copy because of it’s quality of line. I’m spending alot of time with lineat the moment. And also because it’s a beautiful drawing, Sargent had talent coming out of his ears. Two other things this drawing had going for it: Firstly, the print I worked from was actual

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Old Master Drawing Copy – Van Dyck

March 5, 2006 By: Paul3 Comments

This drawing is finished now, after another 5 hours on top of the original 10, so I spent a total of around 15 hours on it. Actually I’m not sure you could ever say a drawing like this is really finished, unless it’s an absolutely exact copy, which seems to me to be an impossibility.

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Old Master Drawings Upside Down

November 30, 2005 By: Paulcomment

30th November 2005 back to Old Master Copies

Old Master Drawings Copied Upside Down

November 30, 2005 By: Paul2 Comments

30th November 2005 Click here for an enlargement Right brain upside down old masters. Clockwise from top left on first drawing:Fragonard, Rubens, Rembrandt, John Singer-Sargent, Raphael Sanzio. These were all copied upside down, trying to develop right-brain,spatial perception. The ones which look right way up are actuallyupside-down. back to Old Master Copies

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Hi, I’m Paul

I'm a (mostly) self-taught artist. I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. I share my work, my evolving process and what knowledge I've gained on my own learning journey here, in the hope that it might help you on yours.
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