#underdrawings

[darkmournearts]

[mysticdragon3md3]

Omg😱

[cherryintheblossom]

The underdrawing for the Feeling is Mutual 1 (self-portrait as Marie Antoinette) and The Feeling is Mutual 2 (self-portrait). It’s always cool to see the underdrawings, it shows you how many steps there are to create these paintings and the amount of layers within what you see as the finished painting. You can see in the middle is the photo of myself that I used for these paintings, it’s actually my original artist headshot I used for all of my profiles and it’s literally a profile of my face. ⭐️ See the entire collection of paintings at @mesu360_project_gallery . . . . #marieantoinette #drawing #underdrawings #selfportrait #johannafalzone #processphoto #paintingprocess #popart #contemporaryart #popsurrealism #mirroredimage #queenoffashion #queenoffrance #pinkandblue #feministart #womeninart #womeninhistory #illustration #drawing #womensupportingwomen #womanartist #womensstories #voiceforthevoiceless #girlpower #prettyinpink #platinumblonde #artistsoninstagram #figurepainting #paintingpeople #rococo #frenchbaroque #france🇫🇷 #versailles #pompadour #corsetdress https://www.instagram.com/p/BnAYdiDB36Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wyssdfr135vy

[portraitoftheoddity]

Swordfighting figure sketches. Because I’m out of practice with action poses. 

[ancientegyptianfaces-blog]

I’m not too sure how I feel about the imaging revealing that there were no underdrawings in our two mummy portraits. On one hand, like Alana, I want to question the use of underdrawings at all, but since I know that there have been sketches and annotations discovered as well as found under other mummy portraits found from ancient Roman Egypt, I want to propose the possibility that templates were still in fact used and that the artist didn’t need an underdrawing if there was a “master” template that they could look to for structural and artistic guidance. What do you guys think?

-Taz

[ancientegyptianfaces-blog]

Believed to be the first artificial pigment produced, Egyptian blue was inspired by the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli. According to Marc Walton, a research associate professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern Univ., Ancient Egyptians used the pigment on their walls and on the ceilings of tombs to replicate the night sky. The first documented appearance of the pigment was around 3200 to 3000 BC.

When I was reading up on artistic style and techniques for our painting workshop this week, I found this interesting take on the mysterious Egyptian blue that scientists have been pumping out articles on. Here, the author theorizes that because blue was not a prized colour in Roman colour palettes, the Egyptian blue “took a backseat” by just being used in the potential underdrawings. What do you guys thing the usage of blue in only the underdrawings meant?

-Taz

[ancientegyptianfaces-blog]

The gold pigment that we found under the microscope on “Portrait of A Young Man” was absolutely amazing, and I think that the potential underdrawings that we observed on the x-ray could be proved with the gold gilt observed under the microscope. I wonder if we examined the whole mummy painting under the microscope, what would we find? I’m hoping for more evidence of gold leaf or additional fibers or residue in leftover resin.

-Taz