Its been some time

Its been some time since I added some photos to this blog, I have been very preoccupied with painting the house and garden walls that I have done or thought of nothing else. That is not good - as painting the walls of the house das not more artistic merit than a monkey doing the tanga.

Peter Paul Rubens

No explanation needed (Hopefully)

Some more exercises

Jacopo da Pontormo

This is a attempt at copying one of the works of Pontormo. Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity.

AlFonso Mucha - the singer and artist.

Birth name: Alfons Maria Mucha Born: 24 July 1860,Ivančice, Moravia, Austrian Empire (present Czech Republic). Died: 14 July 1939 (aged 78), Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Nationality: Czech Field: Painting, Illustration, Decorative art. Training: Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Académie Julian, Académie Colarossi. Movement: Art Nouveau. Works: The Slav Epic (Slovanská epopej). Patrons: Count Karl Khuen of Mikulov. Influenced by Neoclassicism,Paul Harvey and Kevin Wasde. This drawing was done as a study for a painting of "Hamlet" - 1899

Copy of one of Matisses works

Henri Matisse

I think this is one of the better drawing of H Matisse. Most of his line drawing are matter of pen flow with little attention to proportion, but more attention given to the fluid lines of the model. This copy has the added colour given to the hair.

H Matisse's drawing

Henri Matisse

once again the great master H Matisse, but when I was putting this up on the internet net, I could not help but think it looked more like a woman taking a dump. That chair might not be a chair but rather an elaborate toilet seat.

Henri Matisse

Good old Henri went crazy on the middle east. Started to copy all the harem girls.

Jelly woman

Some more copies and interpretations of H Matisse's drawings

Another jelly woman by Matisse

Jelly woman

I have been copies some of the drawings that were done by H Matisse, and have come to a conclusion that most of the drawings seem to portray the woman as jelly woman, with a lot of wobble and shake.

Some more copies done of Matisses Sketches

Some more lessons from H Matisse

Some more copies of Henri Matisse

Copies and interpretations of Henri Matisses work

2 more copies of Henrii Matisse's work