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Goil 'Wit Da Poil
Hi Michele,
Here's my start on the grisaille version. I've been stuck in an awful situation in my day job, accompanied by one of those rotten artistic slumps, where you never get to do what you really want to do when you want to do it. I'm about five hours into this. It's a good exercise for when you want to keep painting or drawing, but things aren't going your way.
The size is 9"H x 8"W, oil on masonite, or about half-scale. I put down a background of raw umber in W&N alkyd Sunday night so it would be mostly dry when I started to work on it Monday. It's all titanium white, raw umber, and some ivory black, using Rembrandt oils without thinning or medium.
I'm using my paperback version of Norbert Schneider's "Vermeer: The Complete Paintings" as a source, since I couldn't get a good printout from the web.I've spent most of my time on the face; hardly even roughed out the clothing and turban. One thing that strikes me is that that earring doesn't appear to be a pearl. It paints more like a glass ball or globe. Am I nuts, or has anybody else noticed this? Vermeer sure knew how to paint a pearl, and it doesn't look like most of his other pearls to me. Anyway, any crits or comments are welcome. Maybe I should have spent tne time doing a brake job on my car?
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