Painterly Figures

[Odayga]

Hey,
Does anyone here know who does great painterly expressive figures? [ lots of use of color in skin tone, a variety of brushstrokes, etc? ]
As of now I have a couple of other artists in mind that I can use for reference for my next painting
- Jenny Saville
- Odd Nerdrum

Also, who does really good skies? Jeff Soto's skies I do admire due to the fact that he has a lot of color interpretation and various things going on in his paintings.

Yup yup
All Help is most appreciated :)

Thanks!
Ashley :oneye:

[enrigo]

The oil painting demo by William Whitaker have a lot of tips on painting and using color in general http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=83405

One thing that really clicks for me is the tip that you should push your brush handling skill to the very edge to make it look expressive and spontaneous.

[Flake]

Lipking
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4711/danielle14x24nk8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Boldini.
http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/8708/boldinigiovannireclinindx6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Drop the tiny text btw, it's not cute or clever.

[Elwell]

Lucien Freud.

[Odayga]

Thanks guys :)

[tensai]

euan uglow

[krossj]

alex kanevsky (http://www.somepaintings.net/Alex.html)

[Chris Bennett]

Lucien Freud, Euan Uglow, Alex Kanevsky!!!! You guys have nicked all the good ones!
Here's Anne Gail - a kind of amalgam of all those three:

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[timpaatkins]

Rick Berry has been doing some really interesting abstracted figures lately.
http://www.rickberrystudio.com/

[Zaxser]

Lucien Freud, Euan Uglow, Alex Kanevsky!!!! You guys have nicked all the good ones!
Here's Anne Gail - a kind of amalgam of all those three:

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Does Fechin count?
http://lali.toutsimplement.be/wp-content/nicolaifechin.jpg

[CCThrom]

These 2 were all about skies...

Jacob van Ruisdael

William Turner

[~Faust~]

Ben Snijders (http://www.bensnijders.nl/Portret_en_Model/Portret_en_Model/Portret_en_Model.1/portret_en_model1.htm)

[Odayga]

Thanks. all your guys' hard work is most appreciated :) :hugsmile:

[kev ferrara]

Anders Zorn, Richard Schmid, Dan Gerhartz, Carolyn Anderson, Phil Hale, Zhaoming Wu, Pino, Sargent, Steve Huston, Skip Liepke, Saul Tepper, Juaquin Sorolla, Hongnian Zhang, Walter Biggs, William Merrit Chase, Lilian Westcott Hale, Whistler, Jeff Jones, Morgan Weistling, Nancy Guzik, Dan McCaw, Degas, Mary Cassatt, Mian Situ, Harvey Dunn,

[drd]

Scott Burdick
(http://www.burdicklyon.com/)
http://www.burdicklyon.com/Scotts_archive/2008/883AndreaPortraitStudy.jpg

http://www.burdicklyon.com/Scotts_archive/2007Scott/841TibetanGrandmother.jpg

http://www.burdicklyon.com/Scotts_archive/2006Scott/803JeanaResting.jpg

http://www.burdicklyon.com/Scotts_archive/2004Scott/658SpnshDncrs.jpg

[algenpfleger]

Pino: http://www.pinoart.com/showcase.htm#

[Jabo]

Sky: Rembrandt van Rijn, generally all of his windmill paintings.

http://www.wissen.de/wde/generator/substanzen/bilder/Ressorts/Bildung/Rembrandt/muehle,property=zoom.jpg

[LjK_89]

shaun ferguson does some interesting painterly portraits
http://www.shaunferguson.moonchart.org/gallery.htm

[Odayga]

Thankyou very much :D. Really appreciate all the help with reference!

[Blue]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=400282&stc=1&d=1214571704

Probably one of my favorite landscapes of all time.

[grinn]

Jeff Watts:

http://www.jeffreyrwatts.com/images/newartwork/reclining_nude.jpg

http://www.jeffreyrwatts.com/images/newartwork/girl_with_blue_shawl.jpg

http://www.jeffreyrwatts.com/images/image2.jpg

http://www.jeffreyrwatts.com/images/image3.jpg

[Odayga]

Thanks Grin :) Jeffrey Watts is amazing.:hugsmile:

[drd]

Oh my fucking god Jeffrey Watts' work makes me drool

Its sooooo gooood holy bajeezus

AAAAHHHHHHHhhhhh man that's hot

Okay, I'm good now.

[Miles_]

Holy shit man! that Jeff watts guys stuff is beautiful:)

[GriNGo]

Egon Schielle & Gustav Klimt

[t11]

Have another:

Steve Huston (http://www.hustonart.com/)

http://www.hustonart.com/Resources/175_325.jpg
http://www.hustonart.com/Resources/177_325.jpg

although i see kev said it already but screw it! I'm posting IMAGES! who reads? pff...

&

Kent Williams (http://kentwilliams.com)
Who I didn't see mentioned.

[TASmith]

by Kev:
"Anders Zorn, Richard Schmid, Dan Gerhartz, Carolyn Anderson, Phil Hale, Zhaoming Wu, Pino, Sargent, Steve Huston, Skip Liepke, Saul Tepper, Juaquin Sorolla, Hongnian Zhang, Walter Biggs, William Merrit Chase, Lilian Westcott Hale, Whistler, Jeff Jones, Morgan Weistling, Nancy Guzik, Dan McCaw, Degas, Mary Cassatt, Mian Situ, Harvey Dunn"

Man, please post some images! :)

[bhanu]

jason alexander (http://bloodandwhisky.blogspot.com/)

[Bowlin]

wow, that Steve Huston guy reminds me a lot of Phil Hale's stuff. That loose brushwork really adds to the action.

[t11]

jason alexander (http://bloodandwhisky.blogspot.com/)

other sites of JSA studiosection8 (http://studiosection8.com/welcome.html) and his official website (http://www.jasonshawnalexander.com/home.html)
i kinda wanted to mention him but figured i covered the painterly bases with williams as similar as they are they are different though. i kinda favor jason's work these days cuz it's darker and the Abe Sapien mini kicked butt but well... whatevs.

wow, that Steve Huston guy reminds me a lot of Phil Hale's stuff. That loose brushwork really adds to the action.

I think there's an old thread around here somewhere with a lot of his stuff that's not featured on his site anymore since this is where I found out about him in the first place. Provided the links still exist.

[kev ferrara]

by Kev:
"Anders Zorn, Richard Schmid, Dan Gerhartz, Carolyn Anderson, Phil Hale, Zhaoming Wu, Pino, Sargent, Steve Huston, Skip Liepke, Saul Tepper, Juaquin Sorolla, Hongnian Zhang, Walter Biggs, William Merrit Chase, Lilian Westcott Hale, Whistler, Jeff Jones, Morgan Weistling, Nancy Guzik, Dan McCaw, Degas, Mary Cassatt, Mian Situ, Harvey Dunn"

Man, please post some images! :)


Here's Hongnian Zhang site... (my painting instructor at Woodstock School of Art) http://www.zhangwoolley.com/html/zgalleries/zhang-gallery.html

[Olof]

I like this thread.


Alot.

[MatejaPetkovic]

I like this thread.


Alot.






Thanks

[bhanu]

other sites of JSA studiosection8 and his official website
i kinda wanted to mention him but figured i covered the painterly bases with williams as similar as they are they are different though. i kinda favor jason's work these days cuz it's darker and the Abe Sapien mini kicked butt but well... whatevs.

Agreed check out his older comics too, secret, damned nation, awesome shit , but yeah his abe sapien takes the cake...awesome draftsmanship.

[nickmarshallvfx]

Totally loving that Jeff Watts work, particularly that last painting, that rules!

Albert Bierstadt has some beautiful skies in his paintings:

[Serpian]

Thread = Love

We need these 'post *** that is awesome'-threads stickied somewhere! I'm talking about Loose Sketches, Masterful Drapery, etc...

[~Faust~]

The photography-subforum has a reference-section. maybe something likethis would be suitable for these kinds of threads.

[grinn]

Well, seeing how well everyone responded to Jeff Watt's (http://www.jeffreyrwatts.com/) work, I thought I might post the work of another instructor at Watts Atelier (http://www.wattsatelier.com).

Meadow Gist (http://www.meadowpaint.com):

http://www.meadowpaint.com/images/kitchenbg.jpg

http://www.meadowpaint.com/images/victorianroses.jpg

http://www.meadowpaint.com/images/antiquities.jpg

http://www.meadowpaint.com/images/nicolette.jpg

http://www.meadowpaint.com/images/bronzebird.jpg

http://www.meadowpaint.com/images/beauty_mark.jpg

I am lucky enough to have the last two paintings hanging on my wall.

[Olof]

Thanks

You're welcome.

[dose]

Ilya Repin...

[drd]

Well, seeing how well everyone responded to Jeff Watt's (http://www.jeffreyrwatts.com/) work, I thought I might post the work of another instructor at Watts Atelier (http://www.wattsatelier.com).



I am lucky enough to have the last two paintings hanging on my wall.

I can definitely see the Watts in her work. Amazing.

[timpaatkins]

Walter Sicker (if you don't know his story look him up for gods sake!)
Robert Henri (Ashcan painters!!)
Boldini (We need a good book on him!)
Henri again

[timpaatkins]

Henri, Zorn and Sorolla.

[timpaatkins]

Winterhalter (knocks the shit out of me every time i go to the met. i gotta go see it! the way the dress i painted is remarkable).
Then Gainsborough, Van dyck and Holbein. Now that velvet on the Holbein will blow your fucking balls off. If you're in NYC go to the Frick!!

[bhanu]

wow that last one is wow.........velvet rules.....

[bhanu]

jeremy geddes (http://jeremygeddesart.blogspot.com)

Just check his comic ...and shit your pants...I did

[KidApe]

Wonderful figurative artists. Here is a painterly figure painter that I recently stumbled upon because this thread had me searching!
http://janelafargehamill.com/

[Flake]

Boldini (We need a good book on him!)

Ooh yes, a big shiny art book (for less than £200) would be most welcome..

[bonedog]

this thread is awesomely exciting.

the original question seems a bit misguided, to me. i think that a lot of these paintings are painted with real feeling put into them. any desire to imitate their external qualities is a sham, and not worth doing.

[GriNGo]

wow, thanks for the posts everybody.. first time I've ever heard of Boldini - freaking amazing! once again, thanks..

[Odayga]

Thankyou very much everyone for all your hard work and help! its most appreciated!!!! :rocker: :D :D :D

[Odayga]

Odd Nerdrum (http://www.nerdrum.com/)

He Currently has a book out that is amazing. I really want it, but its around $110 - $120! I just love his work :)

[Serpian]

Odd Nerdrum is wiiieeeerd.

But good at what he does!

[ArtZealot]

Does Fechin count?
http://lali.toutsimplement.be/wp-content/nicolaifechin.jpg

Myth busted!!

[kev ferrara]

Myth busted!!

Explain please?

[ArtZealot]

Explain please?
It's not dead on, but i saw it and thought "hey that looks like a painterly Jaime, from mythbusters!" maybe it looks more like jaime in 30 years

[rattsang]

hard too believe that aaron coberly hasn't been mentioned yet- so simple yet percise, beautiful

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=99774

also http://www.zhaomingwu.com/figurative.html

what a great thread- it ll be sticky for sure

[Fipse]

One more classical guy for skies. not so very well know in the anglo-saxon world but one of my all time fav painters: Caspar David Friedrich. Picture google for him!

http://www.onlinekunst.de/gedichte/baum_friedrich_1822.jpg

http://www.kunstkopie.de/kunst/caspar_david_friedrich/moench_am_meer_2584.jpg

http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Friedrich_Cloister_Cemetery_in_the_Snow_1817-19.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Caspar_David_Friedrich_017.jpg/759px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_017.jpg

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/resourcesd/fri_crossin.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Caspar_David_Friedrich_032.jpg

THe pictures in the net don´t come even near to the originals ...

Fipse

[NoSeRider]

http://www.jamesyarosh.com/images/html/whatsnew/0706/nar/nar_08l.jpg
http://www.jamesyarosh.com/images/html/whatsnew/0706/nar/nar_04l.jpg
http://www.jamesyarosh.com/images/html/whatsnew/0706/nar/nar_02l.jpg
http://www.jamesyarosh.com/wn_narazyan03.html

Vachagan Narazyan.....he's a contemporary. He still freaks me out.

[Seedling]

Myth busted!!

ROFLMAO!

[Odayga]

:D hahaa

[Chris Bennett]

Hey Michelle! Good to see you back - has your baby arrived yet!

Back on topic, painterly doesn't have to mean wristy brushwork, I think of it as artwork that has closer proximity to the means by which it is made, by which I mean the paint 'is' the alluding to form and light by the presense of paint as paint.

Kim Fohsin:

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[Chris Bennett]

A couple more before going to bed.....

Merstad Beber, Robert Baxter and Gwen John.

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[Flake]

^
More Gwen John

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8458/johndoreliasi6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/681/john4bigjw6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[bhanu]

I lvoe gwen johns work , and I think she was far greater artist than her more famous artst brother AUgustus(who himself was a fine draftsman)

AUgustus JOhn
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/graphics/large/two.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m305/llort_2006/augustus_john_david_1920.jpg

[bhanu]

ANN gale
http://hackettfreedman.com/generated-images/_largest_w400_h400GAL-027-E.jpg
http://hackettfreedman.com/generated-images/_largest_w400_h400GAL-022-E.jpg
http://hackettfreedman.com/generated-images/_largest_w400_h400GAL-036-E.jpg

Milt Kobayashi
http://www.totalartsgallery.com/images/artist/Milt-Kobayashi/June-show-08/twilight%20bistro.jpg
http://www.totalartsgallery.com/artist/Milt_Kobayashi.html

I think somebody did mention nicolas uribe but saw no pics

http://www.uribearts.com/p7hg_img_1/middlesize/221.jpg

http://www.uribearts.com/p7hg_img_1/middlesize/229.jpg

http://www.uribearts.com/p7hg_img_1/middlesize/219.jpg

http://www.uribearts.com/p7hg_img_1/middlesize/217.jpg

http://www.uribearts.com/galeria.php

[Odayga]

Thanks!!!

[kev ferrara]

John Asaro.

(Fyi, check out Liepke instead of his "biggest fan" Milt Kobayashi.)

[bhanu]

liepke rules.....dint really pay attention taht these two were different people tho, just thought he might be using aliases...

jenny saville...(I know many of you know her work but for those who dont)
I think shes sort ofa dumbed down version of alex kanesky
awesome artist anyways
http://www.geocities.com/craigsjursen/45424.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/craigsjursen/pause-20023.jpg

aaron coberly (http://www.aaroncoberly.com/) first two in the attachments

zhaoming wu (http://www.zhaomingwu.com/) awesome pallette great edges


antonio garcia lopez(third fourth in attachment)



sophie jodain (http://www.sophiejodoin.com/) just love her

giacomo favretto
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Giacomo_Favretto_-_Dopo_il_bagno.jpg

Also check out randolf's work in the FF section...

[Odayga]

Andy Thomas :D.

[bhanu]

BUMP

Johann Louw (http://johannlouw.com/)
http://johannlouw.com/pics/p_a.jpg

http://johannlouw.com/pics/p_e.jpg

http://johannlouw.com/pics/p_g.jpg

Euan uglow

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_707_292589_euan-uglow.jpg

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_707_292591_euan-uglow.jpg

William Wray[/URL]

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i271/aghori/Hotelroom1970copy.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i271/aghori/actress.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i271/aghori/pornstarcopy.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i271/aghori/vadred.jpg

Thom Ang

http://www.asfa.biz/ang_st1.jpg

http://www.asfa.biz/ang_girl.jpg

Clare Menck

http://www.art.co.za/claremenck/a01.jpg

http://www.art.co.za/claremenck/a02.jpg

http://www.art.co.za/claremenck/nude03.jpg

[Serpian]

Greg Manchess, http://www.manchess.com/

http://www.manchess.com/images/13.jpg

http://www.manchess.com/images/16.jpg

http://www.manchess.com/images/6.jpg

Blows me away.

[bhanu]

SIMON BIRCH (http://www.simon-birch.com/)


Have fun Kids

[tensai]

SIMON BIRCH (http://www.simon-birch.com/)Have fun Kids

fuck yeah!

[MatejaPetkovic]

fuck yeah!

Second this

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[ciots]

jeremy geddes (http://jeremygeddesart.blogspot.com)

Just check his comic ...and shit your pants...I did

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wA0i0HAsO5Q/SBl2dwuY7PI/AAAAAAAAAQU/rG7-UH9MATw/s1600/print%2Bdoomed%2Bmisc.jpg

looks...familiar

good stuff though

[bhanu]

Amrita Sher-gil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Sher-Gil)

I wonder...how many Indian artists do people here know????
Anyways I gotta say its so hard to find indian artists on the net..and only exhibition catalogues(which are mighty expensive for me) are sources of getting the reprints of paintings....I will try to find more paintings...by other indian artists online...wish me luck...I seriously need it

[bhanu]

Bikash Bhattacharjee
beautiul realist semi realist work in my opinion

[bhanu]

Subrata Gangopadhyay
:sungod: :sungod:

[Burtzum]

Thanks for the Merstad Beber, Chris.

Man theres a lot of good stuff in this thread I need to check out more of.

Here are two things I think I found on the conceptart forums, but dont know who did them. If anyone does, please tell me so I can label them correctly.

The first seems like a Nicolai Fechin study, except I've never seen a Fechin painting that is exactly like that, this seems more like a combination of several Fechin paintings. I'd like to see the original work of the one who did the study though.

[bhanu]

THe secnd one is by ALex kanevsky....
the first one does seems like a fechin study..but I doubt it by the way the face has been rendered....and its a study so really cant say much..

[bhanu]

Oh well....some recent painterly finds
VIctor Wang
http://www.victorwang.net/gallery1/wind/wind.jpg

http://www.victorwang.net/gallery1/drumming/drumming.jpg

http://www.victorwang.net/gallery1/fields/fields.jpg

[TASmith]

Bhanu, post some more art from India! They're fantastic so far, and it's an entire world of images you don't get to see in typical US art history courses, art books, book stores, etc.

[greenbears]

Arthur Streeton

[bhanu]

Heres something for YOu TASmith...

Ganesh pyne
http://i8.tinypic.com/6sa70jr.jpg
http://i11.tinypic.com/6lcatjl.jpg
http://i2.tinypic.com/89zxrvk.jpg
http://i12.tinypic.com/8aeg4yu.jpg
http://i2.tinypic.com/71lvaqp.jpg
http://i4.tinypic.com/6oztymp.jpg

[bhanu]

Sunil DAs...
http://i25.tinypic.com/v68c9j.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/6qxglc.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/2nlwr51.jpg

[Odayga]

Thanks for all the posts guys :) really really appreciate it. wow im glad I started this thread. whoot whoot :rocker:

[Odayga]

Mari Inukai
shes pretty badass, love the way she uses color

[bhanu]

Her stuff has a very kent williams feel to it...btw check out her totoro submission...one of her loveliest works...

[teena_mom]

waw Greg Manchess <3 <3

MAHMOD SAAID,Arabic artist, He joined the Faculty of Law and then went to study art,Now available at the Egyptian Museum.That's all what I found, I did't find a higher size of images :( may later find the original workes .

[FlameDragon]

Superb thread, lots of great painters! Thanks for introducing me to their works.

[Odayga]

yeah no prob. :) im so glad i started this thread

[Odayga]

JUSTIN TAYLOR
the most amazing artist Ive ever met. His work is phenominal :P
link to website: http://www.justintaylorart.com/

[~Faust~]

JUSTIN TAYLOR
the most amazing artist Ive ever met. His work is phenominal :P
link to website: http://www.justintaylorart.com/

Awesome! Bookmarked his blog.

[FlameDragon]

Wow! That Justin Taylor's works are quite remarkable.

[Odayga]

J O R G D U B I N

[Odayga]

ERIC WHITE

[basti0n]

eric fischl. hes great.
paula rego. she mostly draws and uses pastel but a 'painter' none the less
velasquez. sargent. manet i feel have all been mentioned, i just skimmed.
jerome witkin is great.
philip pearlstein

[basti0n]

bo bartlett. tim fisher. ed wong-ligda. perrin mahler

[Odayga]

Thanks bastion :) Alex kavensky is another prolific artist on the list :)

[Cory Hinman]

my teacher
http://www.jononye.com/
He's quoted in my signature. Last spring term he had me sit for an in-class portrait demo for 4 sessions. when I get a scanner or digital cam I'll post it.

[Odayga]

Thankyou! :Hugs: