Sketches

Thursday 31 October 2013

Opa en Oma Schrijen

A commission for a close friend, one that I know since primary school. A portrait of both her (late) parents, based on a photograph. It was the first time I made an oilpainting based on a picture. Difficult because compared to live painting the 3rd dimension is missing. Luckily the picture was very good, it had lively shadows.
But I was very unsure if I caught the essence of both their faces.
I should not have worried. Carina's reaction when she saw the painting this evening told me that I caught the resemblance very well.
 Here is the original picture.

6 comments:

rob carey said...

Very nice work, Rene. It captures them very well.

Matthias Talmeier - Art Journaling said...

Congratulations! Very good work.
I'm trying "portraits" too, but I think it's the most difficult in arts, isn't it? So one can be happy, when it captures the "model"...

Michael Lukyniuk said...

Excellent. A great resemblance and very good oil painting.

Rene Fijten said...

Thanks Rob, Matthias and Michael. It was quite challenging. I am used to paint/draw from live persons, so doing from a picture was hard. Even more that I am not used to oils.

Rodney van den Beemd said...

Zeer geslaagd dubbelportret Rene! Heeft ook een passende warme uitstraling. Goed dat je hiervoor met olieverf aan de slag bent gegaan.

Rene Fijten said...

Dank je Rodney. Olieverf is een prachtig medium. Superieur voor kleurkracht en verwerking, zeker tegen acryl. Maar te langzaam voor de zaterdagmorgen.