Good proper painting! Nothing wrong with painting on hardboard, either, I prefer it to canvas. Doesn't flap about, and as you say there's no weave to disrupt the details of the painting. (If you like the canvas look you can replicate it by painting the gesso undercoat in two different directions, with the streaks overlapping at right angles, and not smoothing it too much). The old masters often painted on wooden panels. I'm not sure how board are less elegant, either, if they are framed. Very nicely done figures. Preraphaelite vibes. One thing, I would check the perspective of the bowl and vase at the side. If the viewer, as one would presume, is on a level with the figures, then we should be looking slightly down on the bowl, and vase, and see the elipses of their upper edges. The perspective on the books could also be looked at. Some of the top edges and sides of the books on the lower two shelves should probably be in view, (assuming they are meant to be real books) and they should indicate a vanishing point.
It's pretty impressive how your subtle reds and browns work their way throughout this library where we find these intriguing young women. Thematically, this painting reminds me a lot of a 1795 painting by John Hoppner in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC called "The Frankland Sisters", which you can see in their website if you're curious. Your depicted sisters appear to be peering out from their time into ours in a way similar to how Marianne and Amelia Frankland seem to confront us from their time. I can easily imagine one of Sargent's contemporaries observing their enigmatic manner, and deciding to pose them in their family library, and painstakingly capturing them over multiple posing sessions, unseen behind the canvas, yet very much part of the story. It's quite an ability you have to conjure up such a rich, layered world with such realism!! Maybe your teachers should be studying YOU. :)
what inspired you to paint about these sisters with different worldviews? i actually really appreciate when people give explanations behind their work, because often a painting might make an impression on you and it's interesting to know why it does, how that effect was _planned_ by the creator, and also sometimes i'm not that great at knowing what to look for regarding deeper meaning in visual media lol (even though i draw myself.....) and it makes it easier for me to learn to recognize it, y'know? anyway lovely painting, i like the implied story behind it and the composition looks really nice.
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Good proper painting! Nothing wrong with painting on hardboard, either, I prefer it to canvas. Doesn't flap about, and as you say there's no weave to disrupt the details of the painting. (If you like the canvas look you can replicate it by painting the gesso undercoat in two different directions, with the streaks overlapping at right angles, and not smoothing it too much). The old masters often painted on wooden panels. I'm not sure how board are less elegant, either, if they are framed.
Very nicely done figures. Preraphaelite vibes.
One thing, I would check the perspective of the bowl and vase at the side. If the viewer, as one would presume, is on a level with the figures, then we should be looking slightly down on the bowl, and vase, and see the elipses of their upper edges. The perspective on the books could also be looked at. Some of the top edges and sides of the books on the lower two shelves should probably be in view, (assuming they are meant to be real books) and they should indicate a vanishing point.
Beautiful work! I like everything, the color palette, the composition and the meaning! Well done ❤
It's pretty impressive how your subtle reds and browns work their way throughout this library where we find these intriguing young women. Thematically, this painting reminds me a lot of a 1795 painting by John Hoppner in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC called "The Frankland Sisters", which you can see in their website if you're curious. Your depicted sisters appear to be peering out from their time into ours in a way similar to how Marianne and Amelia Frankland seem to confront us from their time. I can easily imagine one of Sargent's contemporaries observing their enigmatic manner, and deciding to pose them in their family library, and painstakingly capturing them over multiple posing sessions, unseen behind the canvas, yet very much part of the story. It's quite an ability you have to conjure up such a rich, layered world with such realism!! Maybe your teachers should be studying YOU. :)
what inspired you to paint about these sisters with different worldviews?
i actually really appreciate when people give explanations behind their work, because often a painting might make an impression on you and it's interesting to know why it does, how that effect was _planned_ by the creator, and also sometimes i'm not that great at knowing what to look for regarding deeper meaning in visual media lol (even though i draw myself.....) and it makes it easier for me to learn to recognize it, y'know?
anyway lovely painting, i like the implied story behind it and the composition looks really nice.