Vermeer and Pijnacker are my favourite artists, different genres of paintings, both are masterful in the craft. You did an amazing job of capturing the girl with the pearl earring ❤️👍🏼
Awesome to find your channel, Alex. I too, am an artist that is, as you are, working towards achieving ‘Realism’ works, using acrylics. I also mostly use the Golden Open Acrylics. Fantastic paints. Just requires a rethinking of your approach. But that’s true with all mediums, as each has it’s own unique advantages and disadvantages. Great work on this Vermeer. Well done!! Hey man, I am a new fan, and just subscribed to your channel. Thanks for the video! - Sol
Very interesting video, perfect rendering and composed, excellent choice of music and that's only talking about your video. Your work is truly inspiring and phenomenal! Creating a masterpiece from one of the most famous paintings in the world in a different medium is insane! A huge thanks for sharing.
Excellent video and demonstration, perfect result. Alex, can I ask you how did you get the outline proportion correct first, I know you haven't used Grid, put you probably used a projector , Am I right? Thank you.
Hi! Congratulations! Did you use the same colour for the underpainting on the background and the face? And also, what colours did you use for the second layer of the skin? Thanks!
I used just a straight burnt umber for the underpainting (just to get the initial values locked into place). For the flesh it mainly consisted of yellow ochre, cadmium red, titanium white, and a neutral gray (black + white + touch of burnt umber). Thanks, hope that helps!
Sublime. merci pour ce travail à l'Acrylique. il est vrai que l'on voit souvent de telles réalisations plutôt avec de l'Huile. je suis amateur et je peins depuis 2 ans. j'utilise l'acrylique pour des paysages. ça me donne matière à travailler à l'Acrylique pour le portrait et de plus avec une palette de 5 couleurs. Cordialement
Thanks again for this video, great stuff. One point you don’t address is the fact that acrylics darken fairly strongly when dry (maybe it’s in a later video of this series). When you try to match a colour in the master image, you have to mix it fairly much lighter than what you see and second guess how much it darkens. How do you deal with this issue?
I think the best way to deal with color is to make sure you have proper lighting, and a good neutral palette (New Wave makes a gray glass palette) to see what you are mixing. I like to do color strings which is essentially mixing color values ahead of time. I don't notice acrylics getting much darker... I think often the painting will just appear darker if you are working under a light that is to bright. Try working with a slightly dimmer light to adjust for darkening if you notice. Hope this helps!
Of course, you did a very fine painting, but it's hard to follow along from the screen, when the painting is at an angle to it. Also, there are many stages in the painting of the face which I think you've fast-tracked & I believe viewers prefer to see those transitions; I know I would have.
I prefer to use Golden OPEN acrylic which has a much slower drying time than typical acrylic... But I think the trick for any medium is just continue to work it until everything looks like exactly how you want it. For example, Anders Zorn, Sargent, etc... did a lot of water color paintings and water color dries even faster than acrylic. The medium alone did not stop them from achieving a fantastic level of realism within the works. Hope that helped! 👍🏻
That's a great question! For me, I like to use gray matters brushes - Angled brushes. The angled shape bristles are a little strange to get use to at first but... By having the angle I find the possibilities endless to achieve thin, broad, sharp, curved, etc... strokes. Also when you want thin strokes rely more on the tip - broad strokes (like Sargent) rely on a full bristled stroke. Hope this helps!
@@alexhess_artist Or because it was just tracing? Doesn’t look like anything like sketching. Getting proportions right is the hardest part of all…lot of people skip that part …a real artist can draw him/herself.
@@alexhess_artist No, Just saying what an artist would not need to do, tracing. It’s a skill that people study for years and I think it’s a pity that on you tube there’s a lot of teaching that skip the drawing part because they are tracing or even ‘teach’ to first trace an image. Getting the proportions right is a difficult part of the job. If video’s are just for teaching painting it’s allright because one might make a copy anyway just to teach techniques, but then it could just be mentioned that the drawing is traced because of that. I see you got a few questions about it. If you were not tracing the sketch, good for you, then teach people that too…people would like to watch that too.
@@karinvankempen6892 That's fair in some ways... I will say, I think it's a dated way to view painting and making art in general. // BRAVO! you spent 20hrs sketching and gridding out a masterstudy // Thinking pragmatic... If you were smart you would spend 20mins and "trace" or project for basic shapes... I once had a professor tell me "No one cares about the details of how the sauce is made, they ultimately care if it tastes good." I would recommend focusing on creating compelling art and focus less on if someone follows the rules... Hate to break it to you - Art has no rules, that's why people love it.
I. Love your paintings... excellent work......but. I paint the face. Ferst because her face was there. Before she put her clothes on I go by reality....... funny but true.
