Feb 9, 2017 09:35AM feelingfeline wrote:

Best wishes for your health and healing Jo

Mar 8, 2017 02:38PM QuinnCat wrote:

Starting to see the end of my forgery underpainting. I still have no idea how to glaze, otherwise she might already be a strawberry blonde. So much left to do. Sandro Botticelli Portrait of a Young Woman (Simonetta Vespucci). She was a muse of Botticelli. The poor girl died in her early 20's. I started painting on January 8th. Parts of the braid, cameo and blouse yet to be touched by paint.

Mar 9, 2017 01:33PM QuinnCat wrote:

Thanks FF. I will finish. Our little small town atelier has invitations to "big city" galleries on the table (one in NYC). Not that my painting will be chosen, but I want to at least try. We have some people who have been with this teacher for 5 years and were already artists to start with. I'm a rank beginner, but love it. I would never have thought I'd paint something like this, but the more I looked and looked for a candidate from the old masterpieces (need a hi res jpeg and for it to be free of copyrights), they all started growing on me. (Never did take a class in Art History.) My life will not be long enough to do all of the forgeries I would want to do!

Mar 10, 2017 11:01AM wren44 wrote:

Quinn, Really interesting to see how beauty standards change over time. Her nose is especially different from what's considered beautiful today. And I'm sure she was the very height of beauty in her time. Perhaps if we wait long enough, short and tubby will come back and I'll be in style.

Mar 11, 2017 06:27PM wren44 wrote:

Actually, it does look better with skin coloring. She was really beautiful. My mother's nose looked a lot like that. I have a photo done in black & white and later colored. She died when I was four, so I have just a few, but vivid, memories of her. One was long polished nails. I've never been able to keep mine nice like that.