Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of William Holman Hunt's Wife

Medium: A4 Paper HB Pencil

Portrait of Marion Edith Holman Hunt by William Holman Hunt

It feels I am stealing from an artist. It looks like a man and not like William Hunt's wife.  I still trying at least after a couple of beers and while I am watching movies on my cell phone because I don't have a television.

Ok more about William Holman Hunt's drawing,

William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.  He gave a lot of attention to detail, vivid color, and elaborate symbolism.

He formed the Pre-Raphaelite movement in 1848, after meeting the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Movie watched:
The Wife
Glenn Close
Jonathan Pryce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wife_(2017_film)
and
life Itself
2018 ‧ Drama/Comedy
Olivia Wilde
Oscar Isaac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Itself_(2018_film)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holman_Hunt
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Holman_Hunt_-_Portrait_of_Edith_Holman_Hunt,_the_artist%27s_wife.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood

Pieter Lategan Title: Coronavirus Patient

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil HB


I redraw this image from John Everett Millais, of Elizabeth Siddal (Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, styled and commonly known as "Lizzie", was an English artist, poet, and artists' model. Siddall was an important and influential artist and poet).  John (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherwood.

By the mid-1850s, Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style to develop a new form of realism in his art.

Millais achieved popular success with A Huguenot(1851-52), which depicts a young couple about to be separated because of religious conflicts.  He repeated this theme in many later works.  All these early works were painted with great attention to detail, concentrating on the beauty and complexity of the natural world.  In a painting such as Ophelia(1851-52), Millais created dense and elaborate pictorial surfaces based on the integration of naturalistic elements.


What do I think?

It is getting sad about the virus. The redraw of this woman is my style busy showing I think.  I get a lot of inspiration from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherwood sketches, not the paintings.  I like the style and I like to redo it.

What about the images?

It works but I feel the mouth is too dark and the teeth look too hard.  Further I like it.  I get the feeling the lady is busy dying of sickness.  When I saw the images on the internet of John Millais I think that it could work for a picture who the person is sick.


Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Everett_Millais
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Siddal

Pieter Lategan Title: Dogs and coronavirus cases not ALLOWED

Medium: A4 Paper Blue Pen


The virus is now spreading in dozens of countries around the world. 

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Fanny Cornforth)

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil HB

This is a sketch of Fanny Cornfort (3 January 1835 -24 February 1909). 
She was an English artist's model and the mistress and muse of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  She also performed housekeeping duties for Rossetti.

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator.  He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.  Rossetti was later the main inspiration for the second generation of artists and writers influenced by the most movements. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.

Rossetti's art was characterized by its sensuality and medieval revivalism ( a system of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, and art.  Since the 18th century, a variety of movements have used the medieval period as a model or inspiration for creative activity, including Romanticism, the Gothic revival, the pre-Raphaelitie and arts, and crafts movements).

"Every Pre-Raphaelite landscape background is painted to the last touch, in the open air, from the thing itself. Every Pre-Raphaelite figure, however, studied in expression, is a true portrait of some living person."

Rossetti increasingly preferred symbolic and mythological images to realistic ones.  He created a method of painting in watercolors, using thick pigments mixed with gum to give a rich effect similar to medieval illuminations.  He also develops a novel drawing technique in pen-and-ink.

In 1861, Rossetti returned to oil painting, abandoning the dense medieval compositions of the 1950s in favor of powerful close-up images of women in flat pictorial spaces characterized by dense color.  These paintings became a major influence on the development of the European Symbolist movement.  In them, Rossetti's depiction of women became almost obsessively stylized.  He portrayed his new lover Fanny Cornforth as the epitome of physical eroticism.

After Rossetti's wife died he continued to maintain Fanny Cornforth and painted many voluptuous images of her between 1863 and 1865.


Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FannyCornforth_Rossetti.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Cornforth
http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2010/08/dante-gabriel-rossetti-fanny-cornforth.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medievalism

Artist: Pieter Lategan Title: Secondhand Medals Never Been Won!!

Medium: A4 Pen

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
Coronavirus Cases:
174,449
Deaths:
6,685
Recovered:
77,866


Source:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, a study of woman's head

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil, H

The image is done by

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt
Study of a Woman’s Head
1870

ARTIST: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt 1833–1898
TITLE: Shy
MEDIUM: Graphite on rice paper
DIMENSIONS Support: 203 × 184 mm

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, (28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898) was an English artist and designer associated with the phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked with William Morris on decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

Burn-Jones was also involved with the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art.  His early paintings show the inspiration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by the 1860s Brune-Jones was discovering his own artistic "voice".  Although Burne-Jones was primarily a painter he was also an active illustrator, helping the Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic illustration on books.


Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/burne-jones-study-of-a-womans-head-a00057
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-edward-coley-burne-jones-bt-68

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Albert Gleizes Sketch of Jacques Nayral

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil, H, HB, B, B2

This is an image of Albert Gleizes brother in law which he has drawn.  Albert Gleizes (8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.  He and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on Cubism.  Albert spends four years in New York and played an important role in making America aware of modern art.  He was the founder and participant in the Abbaye de Créteil.

The Abbaye de Créteil was a utopian ( is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia) artistic and literary community founded during the month of October 1906.  Créteil Abbey named after a gathering place in a suburb of Paris. The Abbaye de Créteil community lasted only two years – ending in February of 1908.  The group was inspired by the French Renaissance writer Francois Rabelais, who had written about a self-supporting commune in a monastery called the Abbaye de Thelema that had championed group labor and intellectual self-improvement.

Albert Gleizes was born and raised in Paris. He began to paint self-taught around 1901 in the impressionist tradition. Albert Gleizes was directly involved with Cubism, both as an artist and principal theorist of the movement.  In Gleizes’ paintings of the crucial year of 1910, writes Daniel Robbins, "we see the artist's volumetric approach to Cubism and his successful union of a broad field of vision with a flat picture plane."

In 1911 Gleizes exhibited his Portrait de Jacques Nayral.  This portrait painting was described as Gleizes’ first major Cubist work.  Jacques Nayral was a young modernist poet, dramatist, publisher, and occasional sports writer.  He was a friend of Gleizes and married his sister Mireille in 1912.  Gleizes began working on his portrait in 1910.  He was delighted to paint a portrait of Nayral because his face corresponded well to the solid, faceted, architectural qualities he had sought.  Nyaral was killed in action in December 1914, at the age of thirty-five, in an attack on a German trench near Arras.

Source:

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/abbaye-de-creteil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Jacques_Nayral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gleizes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_de_Cr%C3%A9teil

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Willy Jaeckel Self Portrait

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil, H, HB, H2

Today I relax a bit and redraw a German Expressionist Willy Jaeckel (1888-1944), Selbstbildness / Self-Portrait. Original etching, c. 1921. Image size: 205x157mm.

So today I looked at expressionism and I find this etching images of expressionism to help me understand what it is really all about. I was looking for a face to draw to improve my skills.

So expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas and not a physical reality.

Expressionist was a sense as early as 1850, its origin is sometimes traced to paintings exhibited in 1901 in Paris by the artist Julien-Auguste Herve, which he called Expressioinismes. The term expressionism firmly established itself in 1913.

Expressionism refers to art in which the image of reality is distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist's inner feelings or ideas. Expressionist art tends to be emotional and sometimes mystical. It can also be seen as Romanticism.

When the Nazis took control, after which the works went underground. In the times of the Nazis, art must support the ideals of Nazism.  Modern art was called degenerate art and a total of some 15 550 works were being removed.

Sources:

http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Exhibitions_German_Exp.html

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/e/expressionism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism

Artist: Pieter Lategan Title: Man Watching

Man watching is a sketch I did from a photo that I got from the net, I started late last night with it and just finished it.

It is not one of the best sketches in my opinion but I think I got the idea right. I have to study up and look at the sketch is it is realistic? I think so yes. That is my goal to go and work to a more realistic kind of paintings, for now, ketches. Till I feel I got it 100% under the knee then I will start with paint.

Movie watched:  Submergence, Drama 2017, English,

Wim Wenders, Alicia Vikander, James McAvoy, Celyn Jones

Artist: Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Florian Nicolle Pencil Sketch

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil, H, HB, B, B2

Nicolle is a Freelance graphic designer who is also a Frenchman based in Caen, France,  who creates logos, graphic charters, flyers or illustrations.

He published a series of pencil portraits transposing with realism ( is the accuracy of expression or detail in objects.  It is drawn in photographic precision.  Realism in the sense is also called naturalism, mimesis or illusionism.) and virtuosity (a great technical skill in the art.)the spontaneity of the first strokes.  The outlines of the faces appear discretely and the tones vary cunningly from white to black in order to reproduce the effect of lights and the textures.

So what do I think about my own work?

I draw about three and a half hours on this sketch and it was very difficult, I actually got frustrated.  The tones he uses is difficult, it is from what, then greys, and then blacks.  The balance of the sketch was difficult, the eyes are stronger drawn than the mouth.  To get that balance correct was difficult and I don't think I really succeed in that.  Florian has good skills and I think his work is wonderful.

http://www.fubiz.net/en/2016/06/02/spontaneous-and-realistic-black-and-white-pencil-portraits/

Pieter Lategan Title: Self Portrait 2020 March

Medium: A4 Paper, Pencil HB, B2

This is a self-portrait of my self.  I took this picture one morning early in 2018.  I remember I did not sleep that night.

So a little about me, I matriculated at Erasmus High School in Bronkhorstspruit in Gauteng.  I left and work as a clerk at the Department of Education and Training.  This was in the apartheid time, the black people had their own school department.  After that, I went to the army and went to study teaching.  My main subject was art. 

So what do I think about my work?

The left-hand side looks a bit out of the portion.  I struggle with my nose but I think the eyes are ok, but also there can be more work spending.  I personally feel I am not ready to do portraits for people.  This is my thought to draw people at the end and paint them.  Practice practice is the keyword.

Listen to the news on Facebook about politics and the coronavirus.

Pieter Lategan Title: Dead Man

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil HB, B2

I got this image from the internet, and I liked the way the photo is been taken.  The man is sleeping but he looks dead.

The photo I got from a photographer Carl Vanassche, and he likes natural light and natural young men to take photos of.  The photos have a sensuous stillness.

He bought his first camera in 2011 and a couple of months he started to work with models.

Most of his models are regular next-door guys who have never modeled before.  But he also works with experienced models, actors, dancers, DJs, and performers.

Apart from fro0m model photography he also does abstract architectural photography and kinetic photography.

He exhibits in Paris, Amsterdam, and Barcelona.

So what do I think of my work?

I could spend more time on the background but II feel the shape is good but it needs darker lines.  

The face works for me and I personally think that it looks like an artwork and not a normal kind of photo or man what I draw.

Source: https://www.advocate.com/photography/2018/6/09/58-photos-natural-naked-guys-carl-vanassche#slide-0

Pieter Lategan Title: Oil Ridge Worker

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil HB

"Analysts warned of a global recession on Monday as a coronavirus-fuelled sell-off dragged stocks, bond yields, and oil prices lower."

Source:

https://www.businessinsider.co.za/global-recession-inevitable-analysts-comment-on-market-crash-2020-3

So the coronavirus is busy to have an effect on the oil price and businesses.

So what do I think of my own work?

I draw it pretty fast  I need to start working on background ideas.

Pieter Lategan Title: Coronavirus Mask

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil HB

The third case of the virus is today reported, but the first patient is going home in South Africa. So you can heal from the virus if it is treated soon enough.

Pieter Lategan Title: 138 days left before the Olympics in Tokyo

Medium: A4 Paper Blue Pen

Virus virus everywhere you go.

3524 people already dead and 98 countries are affected.

Pieter Lategan Title: Coronavirus vs Olympics 2020 - Who is going to win?

Medium: A4 Paper Blue Pen

141 days left before the Olympics.  The first case of the virus from Italy to South Africa.  Will robots help to prevent the virus from spreading?

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Stephen Bennett's Sketch

Medium: A4 Paper HB, B Pencil

It took me a while to redraw this sketch, I was a bit lazy and took my time on it.  I am very happy and think it is a great success.

I got this image of Stephen Bennett's website and thought this one is a good practice.  

Stephan Bennett was born in London in 1954.  In 1973 he completed a course in Graphic, Design, and Illustration he graduated from Barking College of Art in London.  He worked for 18 years for leading London advertising agencies.

Having left the commercial world he finds his own way of painting.  Drawing his inspiration from the people and landscape around him he has developed a vigorous and expressive style.  He has a special interest in people and their day to day activities.

Source:

https://stephenbennett.net/content/4-about-Stephen

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Valentin Serov Self Portrait

Medium: A4 Paper HB Pencil

I slept till one this afternoon and have to start working now.  I am going to continue with the self portrait and hopefully will be done to put it on tonight.

This is a redraw of a self portrait of Valentin Serov a Russian painter (1865–1911).

His greatest work was the portraits: The Girl in Peaches. In these paintings, he concentrated on the spontaneity of perception of the model and nature.   In the development of light and color, the complex harmony the features of early Russian impressionism.

Girl with Peaches

Valentin Serov

Date: 1887

Style: Impressionism

Genre: portrait

Media: oil, canvas

This painting is considered to be one of Serov’s greatest works and one of his famous.

The painting depicts 12-year-old Vera Mamontova, a daughter of Russian entrepreneur and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov.

It was painted at Abramtsevo, an estate not far from Moscow in the summer of 1887. It was a comfortable place for artists not only to gather and discuss important topics but to live and create.

The job was not easy for him and took him three months to complete.  The painting is so penetrated by lightness, airiness, and light that it seems that it was created in one breath.  Vera seems to be sitting still, and carefully looking at the viewer.

Valentin knew Vera from her babyhood and frequently visited Mamontov’s Abramtsevo estate, sometimes even lived there for lengthy periods of time.

From 1890 on, the portrait became the basic genre in Serov’s art.  It was in this field that his early style would become apparent, the paintings notable for the psychologically pointed characteristics (personality psychology is the study of personality and its variation among individuals.) of his subjects.  Serov’s favorite models were actors, artists, and writers.

So what do I think about my own work?

It was hard to redraw it and took me a while, the lines were thick and I used an HB Pencil.  I think he did it with charcoal.  My knowledge of charcoal sketches is very limited.

Sources

https://en.opisanie-kartin.com/description-of-the-painting-by-valentin-serov-girl-with-peaches/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Serov

https://www.wikiart.org/en/valentin-serov/girl-with-peaches-1887#!#supersized-artistPaintings-237456

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Nicolai Fechin | Miguel Catalan

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil  HB, B2

Nicolai Fechin was a Russian-American painter known for his portraits and works featuring Native Americans.  In 1910 he exhibited his first work in the United States at an international exhibition.  He immigrates to New York in 1923 and working there for a few years.

He became well known for his powerful portraits, which observers said seem to radiate (energy, especially light or heat) from the eyes of the subject.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolai_Fechin

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Lucian Freud- Head of an Irishman

Medium: A4 Paper, HB and B3

Lucian Freud was a British painter (8 December 1922, Berlin, Germany - 20 July 2011, London, United Kingdom) and draughtsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.  His father was a Jewish architect Ernest L. Freud.

His early career was influenced by surrealism but in the early 1950s, is often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.  Most of the paintings he made were about friends and family.  His paintings were generally somber and thickly impastoed.

(Impasto is a technique used in paintings, where the paint is on an area of the surface in very thick layers,  usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.  Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas.  When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas.

The purpose:

It serves as several purposes.  First, it makes the light reflect in a particular way, giving the artist additional control over the play of light in the painting.  Secondly, it can add expressiveness to the painting, with the viewer being able to notice the strength and speed by which the artist applied the paint.  Third, impasto can push a piece from painting to three-dimensional sculptural rendering.  This represents folds in clothes or jewels.  Vincent van Gogh used it frequently for aesthetics and expression.  

Impasto gives texture to the painting, meaning it can be opposed to more flat, smooth, or blended painting styles. )

Freud often set it in unsteeling interiors and urban landscapes.

In the 1950's he began to focus on portraiture, often nudes (though his first full-length nude was not painted until 1966).

He normally cleans his brush after each stroke when painting flesh, so that the color remained constantly variable.

Freud's practice was to begin a painting by first drawing in charcoal on the canvas  He then applied paint to a small area of the canvas, and gradually worked outward from the point.  For a new sitter, he normally started with the head as a means of "getting to know" the person, then paint the rest of the figure, eventually returning to the head as his comprehension of the model deepened.

"Benefits Supervisor" in the title of the painting,[29] as in his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which in May 2008 was sold by Christie's in New York for $33.6 million, setting a world record auction price for a living artist.

What do I think of my sketch of Fraud which I redraw?

I am happy with him except the right-hand side-eyes is not for me totally correct.  I like the dark lines.  The mouth works for me but I think it needs more attention.  His mouth was very difficult to redraw.

In my opinion, it looks like a real artwork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Freud

https://www.phillips.com/detail/lucian-freud/UK030315/19

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of self-portrait of Clyfford Still

Medium: A4 Paper Pencil HB, 4B

Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists  He develop a powerful approach to painting in the years following World War II.  Still has been credited with laying the groundwork for the movement, as he shifts from representational (relating to or denoting art which aims to depict the physical appearance of things. "the abstract and representational elements in the same picture") to abstract painting occurred between 1938 and 1942.

So what do I think about my own sketch which I redraw from Still?  II used an HB and B4 to draw and actually I think II should take a B2 or B3 to do my drawing.

I like the face but feel and the hair, the background is a bit skimpy and II feel it could have more detail.  Ii personally thinks it took him about 20 min to draw it if it was so long.

Pieter Lategan Title: Wednesday Thought - Make Someone Happy Today

Medium: A4 Paper and Ink

Is it just another day to go to work?  Or is it a day you are going to stand up and make the world a better place for someone special?

Think who can you make someone happy today.

Pieter Lategan Title: Redraw of Andy Warhol feet Untitled

Medium: A4 Pencil HB

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, Film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

I got one of his sketches where Andy Warhol draws feet, I did research and saw he had a kind of a feet fetish.  He frequently drew feet and sometimes accompanied them with phallic (relating to or resembling a phallus or erect penis ) objects.

In this case, the redraw which I  draw the feet with a vessel and decorated it with fruit or flowers.  He used models like friends, potential lovers, art dealers, and celebrities to serve as models.

What is my opinion?

I choose today the topic of drawing feet and find it very interesting to get something that Andy Warhol did.  It is interesting to see what he combine, in this case, feet and a vessel with a fruit decoration and tiles.  

He used a ballpoint pen to draw it but in my case, I use a pencil HB.

If I look at the sketch it seems to be the person is sitting while he was drawing the model.  He even decorated the feet

Source:

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/34820

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol

Pieter Lategan Title: On the Beach Study 2

Medium: A4 Paper, H, HB, B

I just completed this second study of "The Beach", this one is a bit lighter drawn than the previous one, but I more happy with the feet and the hands.  The shape of the left foot Is more correct that the study one of The Beach study 1.

I am busy watching a series about Picasso a National Geographic production. (2017).

“National Geographic’s 10-part global event series GENIUS returns to explore the turbulent life of the 20th century’s most controversial artist, Pablo Picasso (Antonio Banderas). A child prodigy, Picasso was not satisfied imitating the masters. He set out to create his own style and in doing so changed art forever. GENIUS: PICASSO explores the muses, the art, and the complicated man behind the masterpieces.”

Source:

http://natgeotv.com/int/genius-picasso/about 

Pieter Lategan Title: Man Sitting at the Bus Stop Study 2

Medium: A4, Paper, Pencil H, HB, B

It is the second time I draw the same sketch from a photo that I got from the internet.  I think this one shape now for the first time very good.  I am very happy with his cheeks. It is a bit blow up as if he is tired waiting for the bus.  I am not sure what to do with the background.

Time Finished 11 February 2020, 08:04PM