Third Copy - The Grasshopper and the Owl

As you probably noticed by now that I did my master copy in a 5.5" x 8.5" sketch book. It is a Strathmore's heavy weight, watercolor sketch book. All paintings here are done in watercolor acrylic.

I came back to Charles Santore's painting for my third master copy. I was fascinated by the red in the painting. I almost never did a painting in red color scheme and the only one that I did wasn't quite successful. This painting looks so simple with its layout and I only realized how complicated it is when I started my copy. It took me about 3 days to finish this painting in my small sketch book. I readjusted the original layout so that it fit into the sketch book. The painting was done on 6.23.09.

Rembrandt's Flora

This is the second copy I did on June 15th 2009. Ever since I am out of school I haven't been able to paint people from life. I always thought about painting still life at home yet I am never motivated enough to do so. Painting from real life is definitely a good way to improve one's painting technique while training the eyes in observing the painted object or subject.

Since I am not going to set up still life at home now, I thought making a copy of a good realistic painting will help too. This second painting is a copy of Rembrandt's painting titled "Flora". Do note that even making a direct copy from the original, I stylized my painting.

Master copy

About five months after I finished my master program, the time that I painted most intensely in finishing my thesis project, I finally had the motivation to do painting again. I decided to start slow, which is to do master copy first.

This is the first one I did, an illustration by Charles Santore, my favorite children's book painter. This is an illustration for the story "The Ox and the Frog" from Aesop's Fables. I was pretty happy with it when I finished the painting but now looking at it again, it is just ok for a master copy. Still, it is a start.