Joan of Arc background

[Dan Saunders]

Hi Tom,

Thank you very much. The idea of graduation diagonally NEVER occured to me. I guess we can sometimes get caught up in the subject of an important work and forget the basics. Or, I am just senile ...haha

I have reworked the hand/sword as had been suggested elsewhere and it works better. I am a little behind on this painting because I am also working on a series of oil paintings called, "Creation of Woman" as well as oil and pencil portrait commissions.

Unfortunately since the "Creation" works are nudes I can not post them here. I had a 2 hour photo shoot with the model last Saturday. I had searched 2 yrs for the right model.

When I complete the underpainting, I will post another digital image of it. Since I have done it in oil, I will have to wait for the final strokes on the underpainting to dry completely before I begin to apply the semi-transparent and transparent glazes.

[Timothy C. Tyler]

I'd say this work will be able to stand a pretty powerful background if you paint it with the same careful, delicate method you've done thus far. Go for it, but don't fake it. If you use ref use about a 50 mm lens, no zoom etc. You know this already, Tim

[Dan Saunders]

Hi Everyone,

I am sorry I have not posted in a while but I got behind in my commissions and other projects that needed completing (Creation of Woman).

This image is a quick digital pic of the face with 4 glazes so far. I figure I have 1-2 more to finish smooting it down.

Thanks,
Dan

What a powerful work! Her eyes are stunning. The background is very nice, very period-piecey.

I can't wait to see it when you're all done, and maybe some more work-in-progress pics from the glazing too?

Beautiful!

[Dan Saunders]

Hi everyone,

Here it is 75% completed. I have the hands to finish as well as the sky on the left side and bolts and glazes on the armour.

Hope you like it....so far...

Dan

[Kimberly Dow]

I love it - it is so dramatic.
Is this for a commission?

[Dan Saunders]

Hi Kim,

Thanks. I am glad you like it. This is not s comission. I will be doing prints of it at the first of the year.

I tried to keep track of how many glazes I've done on it. I believe there are 17 so far.

Dan

[Steven Sweeney]

Dan,

You

[Dan Saunders]

If most of these references are being made to the closeup image, thay have been addressed partially or completely in the full length view.

Further halftones have been applied since the full length view was posted.

The chalkiness you speak of I don't see in the original or in the images on my screen....that may be a result of computer viewing.....we will see.

Much has been done since the full lenth was posted. I will post a new image in a day or so.

Thanks for the feedback.

Dan

[Dan Saunders]

Here is a close-up of the above full length view. A few more hours of work have gone into it since even this point.

I will post in a day or so.

Dan