Sunday, October 17, 2010


This is Drunken Silenus by Peter Paul Rubens. He was a pioneer in the art of painting living flesh, bodies that don't look like they are made of marble. He uses adjacent pairs of desaturated complimentary colors to paint how light falls across skin more realistically. His figures' bodies look full of blood, the way fat and muscle is distributed beneath the skin is painted really realistically in his work. I think his work is relevant to what I am trying to do in class right now. I have tried to paint in layers of glaze as Rubens did, but it hasn't worked. I think I'm making progress with the alla prima technique, though.

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