I want to copy an old master painting to the best of my ability.

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this is the only master study I've done in paint, and it was for an assignment in art school. The drawings pretty wonky, but I think some of the paint handling still holds up.

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>>3118318
>>3118319
>>3118345
Personally, I don't find pre-17 century paintings that interesting for doing studies, especially since they didn't quite understand the anatomy and perspective yet, and the paintings have a degree of stylization with their smooth smooth faces, sfumato and such. Their srawngs are god tier though.

By the way, I have a lot of old masters' art so if you want something specific to study, like genre, style, period, subject of study (value, color, composition), you can request. Maybe even difficulty level, cause some paintings are harder to reproduce than others.

>>3118416
*drawings
Dunno how I fucked up that word so much. Also repeated smooth.

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>>3118416
yeah um maybe that drawing is all the ref i need really, dem draperies...
I'm also realizing that pre 17 centrury stuff isnt my favorite, I wanted to copy a powerful painting which I could actually hang in my room only all the best stuff is either too complex or about crucifixion imo.

Really I want to do this do have a painting which shows a high degree of labor went into it...and maybe be about labor. I dunno really, something tasteful, lol.

This was a rembrand sketch i did like four years ago.

>>3118376
BTW nice effort there!

>>3119098
>I wanted to copy a powerful painting which I could actually hang in my room only all the best stuff is either too complex or about crucifixion imo.
You can try Bocklin's Isle of the Dead, it's not complex and it's very powerful. As for paintings about labor, I dunno, there's the Barge Haulers on the Volga, lol.

>>3118416
>Personally, I don't find pre-17 century paintings that interesting for doing studies, especially since they didn't quite understand the anatomy and perspective yet, and the paintings have a degree of stylization with their smooth smooth faces, sfumato and such.

This. leonardo da vinci is a meme artist, study more accomplished later masters like leyendecker and leon gerome

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K good suggestions guys thanks. I'm going to put this leon gerome on the contestant list.

>>3118316
I would read into painting and their contexts through time before saying anybody is better than anybody else.

Anyway, a quick heads up about painting pre-1820's, %90 of everybody worked up from a full grisaille underpainting from some umber or red-black, including gerome, ingres, cabanel and others.

Good luck

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>>3118316
One of my finest

>>3119575
whats a "meme artist"?