Dutch masters paintings portraits

Saskia - Follower of Rembrandt

Studies I did just for fun this week. Theme: Old masters 1. Section from Rembrandts portrait of Johan Wtenbogaert. Time: 4h 2. Process Gif 3. George Lawrence Bulleid Study. Time: 2,5h

Rembrandt Painting (Detail)

Rembrandt, detalle de soldado alemán

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I’m off to New York City tomorrow for a big wedding, and although time is limited, I’ve got to go to at least one exhibition while I am there. I’m torn between the Morgan Library & Museum’s Edgar Allen Poe: The Terror of the Soul and an equally new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: …

Patrick Byrnes on Instagram: "Afternoon form pass on this portrait study of @vitranolombardogiuseppe…decided to limit my palette to just titanium white, cad red, cad yellow, and ultramarine…for fun? (I guess?) Doesn’t seem to make a huge difference to how I interpret/mix color…Nice to give my umbers a well deserved rest tho SMH #munsellallday #portrait #paintingfromlife #oilpainting #huevaluechroma #limitedpalette #portraitpainting #fromlife #munsell #process #WIP"

Long before iPhones, Snapchat filters, Kim Kardashian, and Cindy Sherman, painters like Rembrandt were painstakingly accepting their worst angles and inventing their best, all in pursuit of the art of the selfie. It's a torch that Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, and Marina Abramovic have all nobly helped carry throughout the centuries, rendering their own likenesses in everything from pencil to Polaroid film to oil paint. "Facing the World," up now at the Scottish National Portrait…