Portraiture Painting

Rene Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fell under the umbrella of surrealism.  What catchs my attention with his unique style of painting is that we have similar views, I once had a vision of statue heads bleeding, but the difference between us was that i had visions of them in my head , rene had them painted on canvas's for a worldwide audience to share this beuty with.

Leonardo da Vinci

What i like about this particular painting of the famous da vinci is that his art work shows to me personally a long history of olden day styles, which alot still have trouble trying to follow these days. I am always fascinated by his artwork and he will always be a great inspiration to me and many others.

Process of paintings and feedback on experience

Before we started doing our partners portrait, we took photos, three shots to be exact, from these three shots we had to choose the one which best suited us personally to paint on our canvas's using oil paint. I worked with thomas. We then cropped them , brightened and darkened some parts to see more detailed parts of our partners portrait pictures. We had to make a colour chart of our partners flesh tones and follow that while we painted, but with me, I was having so much fun painting, I got carried away with the colour tones, just having fun with it, I mixed up afew colours changing the skin colour tones of thomas's skin. As I was never good at mixing and matching colours, I chose to stick with what I was use to, which was a simple colour up painted on my canvas guided by my lines which i painted on first. Started from painting the eyes inside, i slowly then brought them out by out lining them with  black, which always brings out the best of the inside colours. moving on out to the outside of his face, i used black alot to bring   out the shape and colours of his face.  At the most, it took me about a week and a half to complete my partners portrait. I was glad with the results because of the feed back from thomas, as he laughed and smiled about his portrait. How I felt about this project, I enjoyed much of it, learning new skills with oil painting, learning the mixture of different colours to make specific tones , to make portraits more detailed. I learnt alot from this hands on experience an hope to learn much more through out this year.

Portrait of Thomas