-Mona-

Painting \ Figure | 08/02/06 @503 | SeanyD | critiques (13) | views (823)

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I decided on painting something from one of the great artists, I first had Frank Frazzeta on my mind but then i found the great Mona Lisa and i just couldent resist.
Let me tell you something, Leonardo was a Top of the line artist (obviously), i found this face one of the most difficult to replicate while trying to keep his way of shadowing etc. I first planned to just do the face, but after 5-6 hours of working on it and finnaly getting the mouth and eyes (allmost right) i decided what the hell! Ill do a bit more. So the background and body is more of an afterthought, my main focus was on the face.

Obviously the main point of this was to practice with skintones and finding out what kind the masters used and figuring out WHY they used them. I added some extra little bits to my version if you can notice. I used a reference of her from a cracked version. Not sure if theres any restored cleaner looking versions but i couldent find any. So think of this as the piece that would have been at the time he made it, more clean looking and less worn and torn. Allthugh obviusly deduct the tons of amount of skill i dont have compared to the master Leonardo Da vinci.

I dont know about you guys but the more you look at Mona Lisa the more it tends to freak me out. I got a few chills painting this i can tell you, im not sure what it is, the way the black surrounds her face makes her pop out and stare. I did add the white specks in the pupils unlike leonardo, i think it makes her look at you even more but hey, im not leonardo, he probably knows i shouldent have done that but what the hell, this is my version. Oh and my light flickerd on and off twice last night while i was painting and it never does that! Ok, im just freaking myself out now.

Anyway, enjoy. lol

Dedicated to Leonardo D
Sean Donaldson

Total Time : All night! Aprox : 9hours

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Almost-Human

08/02/06 @557

Do you use a reference photo? or is it a relative?
I cant help but say I like the way she smiles at me..
You are truly a modern day master..
Bloody good work.. any chance of painting my ceiling at the weekend?
10+

OPTICALDIVA88

08/02/06 @570

almost human, its the Mona Lisa....im very surprised you havent seen it before...very famous painting. well even though the background is an afterthought as you said, i think you did an excellent job of it. and i think you did a fair replication. a couple of things bother me though...the nose on this mona is a bit elongated and thin. also the mouth looks a bit puckered, as if she had something sour, it makes her look a little older, and the last thing is, i think the lighting is a bit dominent. its more subtle on the original. i love the fact that you didnt try to age it, it looks very fresh and pretty. for me this is 6/8, good work.

klyph

08/02/06 @574

A great remake, I think. You raise an interesting concept though.... I wonder what Da Vinci would do with a tablet.

emarts

08/02/06 @580

Well, I'm not comparing it to the real thing just making judgements based on what you have presented here. From my memory, I think it looks a lot like DaVinci's -- so it has a good resemblence. But there's some things about it that are a bit out of place.

For instance, her chest is glowing, as if she were made from plastic. Also, there's a non-consistency in texture. Almost looks like you used a scanned reference. In the close up of her mouth and on her neck you can see the mottling in the shadows that dissapears as the skin gets brighter.

Also, the blacks are like a big ink stain. I think shes' supposed to be wearing something like a hair net. But it's difficult to tell because the detail is lost in the darkness of her hair. And your touch-up near her collar over her right breast is blatantly obvious. At least on my monitor.

The eyes are wonderful and her puckered lips are very good too. I get the same feeling as you after looking at her so closely -- freaky.

There are other inconsistencies that I can see, but overall it's not a bad reproduction. I think copying the masters is a good way to explore and learn.

loneorbit

08/02/06 @614

Aside from the posted work above a few statements reguarding, Leonardo da Vinci. To begin his name is Leonardo, the da vinci at the end means of vinci which is the town that he came. It is written that this was his personal favorite piece and when he was found deceased in an area in France this was said to on the wall over his bed. If you study the backround you will eventually discover that the landscape that he painted has no real referance to any area of Europe. He basically he created the landscape out of his mind.

As for your adaptation of the Mona Lisa, well done. The face is by far the closest to the original, some minor issues with the curves nothing to big to nit pick.

SeanyD

08/02/06 @627

Optic : thanks for your crits, the mouth was by far the hardest thing to replicate, as i was mostly focussing on the face, the upper body and background was more sloppy. I heard some people see the mouth in different ways depending on thre vision or something...im not sure but yeah it was bloody hard to get quite acurate.

klyph : thanks and yes that would be something illd like to see

Lone : Thankyou very much!

sorry about that and also apologize on getting th name wrong

Emarts : haha you noticed the glowing breast too! yah i noticed that just recently

Try looking at the painting upside down and you should notice a drastic vision of her looking either a lot younger, or a lot older. I see her as younger.

Andy--Jones

08/02/06 @637

Nice recreation of this most overated of paintings (in my opinion) You have got her look well from what I remember...its ingrained on all our memories now I think. But I have to say I absolutely hate the original! Of all his work I cant understand why this is the most famous. Maybe I am missing the point as I do with most art but there you go....and thats not a dig at you, its a dig at art lovers.

Oh and A-H you should be ashamed not knowing who Leonardo DaVinci is! YOu not seen Titanic yet?

Good work Sean.

SeanyD

08/02/06 @638

Cheers Andy, yeah i agree the painting itself isnt amazingly complicated like some of the great artisitc work but i think there is something about it. Its in her expresion i think.

loneorbit

08/02/06 @692

Actually there are many schools of thought as to why the original has been praised over the years. Most are familiar with the eye following the viewer. Some try to say that it is a self portrait of himself as a women or it is portrait of a woman he adored, but she was married to a man of nobility, or a combination of them. He had a tendency of not completing his comissioned work, which gave him the reputation of being arrogant when it came to his work. Going back to what I stated in my earlier post, it was found above the bed where he parished during the night. He held onto it for many years ( it may not be his best), but it had a special significance to him.

Diane

08/02/06 @737

Nice one! I agree with OPTICALDIVA though. The airbrush and lighting gives it a plastic feel though. Good work anyways, it's a difficult subject to paint

+8/10

SeanyD

08/03/06 @632

Lone : I heard the woman is actually a daughter or something of a wealthy silk merchant? Could be wrong but i think i read that on wikipedia or summin.

Diane : thanks Diane

loneorbit

08/03/06 @764

Well that could be debated, our resoures regurding him are rather limited as is the case with many artists of the Renaissance for the most part.

killadore

09/15/06 @207

great work, it looks a lot like the original. the eyes look too sharp and don't go too well with the dimmed, mellow tones and shades of her skin though.
still, impressive remake

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Painting \ Figure | 08/02/06 @503 | SeanyD | critiques (13) | views (823)

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