It is a very beautiful portrait by Raphaël, of Marie Madeleine. It was discovered last year, in 2023 and exhibited for a while in St Maximin in the Var, where Anne from our Tuesday group saw it. She was very much impressed, it looks like a Da Vinci!
The exercise is not about creating a copy that looks much like the original, it is about using the face and the facial expression as inspiration... Did that work out? I believe so!!
Corinne's take on Marie Madeleine. Very well done and she looks so beautiful and mature in this stylised version. Eyes are spot-on, well done!
Anne also created a very much personalized version. With a fur or velvet collar and a silk dress. Wonderful! Eyes and overall expression are yet again very good, We love the pink background! And some of us saw resemblance to a member of the Addams family. Wednesday?
Charlie has not finished her version of Marie because she worked on her peonies most of the time, but the WIP looks very promising and again different! More next time...
Ingrid took the picture as example and did a fantastic job on the front of the dress, I can't stop admiring that. The face is characteristic - though slightly friendlier than the original
This is the wildest version up to now, I absolutely adore it! Janine painted it - and it is truly based on Marie Madeleine - just with different hair and a white silk dress. Super and very original!
Brenda's version has a very friendly charisma and is so beautiful with its very dark contrast! The picture has come out too blue (my bad) in real life it is much blacker...
Trish is not happy with her Maria Magdalena - I do not agree, and she will make it even better next time. To comfort her I will also post my failed portrait, it was meant to be a modern version...
Just in: the contribution of our correspondent in Bretagne, Michele! A very different interpretation, but it is Marie Madeleine, just with an other painting as inspiration!
And then there were projects to be finished, as well as original other works and ideas! Not to miss, here they are:
Corinne's pompous Polichinelle or Pulcinella
Glen's elegant and light-footed 'Arlequin
Barbara (our correspondent from the UK) joined us with her original and funny Harlequin
And Charlie, as mentioned before, she finished her Peonies. I say, breathtaking. So lively and lovely, great shading, contrast and that tablecloth looks like embroidered silk. Shadows and glass, all superb. I am enthusiastic. I bet you noticed that already 😀
Glen experimented and painted a Caribbean seascape with flower islands. It is crazy ad I love it!
Sylvie continued with her crazy flowers, similar approach as Glen and she will probably add more splashing. I love it! And to balance it out, Sylvie also worked on a commission of Koi Carp. That's working out fine as well...
Talking about commissions, Judith finished her portrait of Charlie 'the dog). You don't often see them as shiny! Great work, what a sweety.
Brenda finished her excellent painting of her son with his kids. What a fantastic shadow, and soooo much atmosphere.
And last but by no means least, Tony drew and painted a van Gogh impression (to practise for the Hangar Spring Trip to Arles no doubt) looking out from his bed. Very well done, love the idea, love the execution and that sky, it looks very van Gogh!
New Aquarellista Vanessa did the spheres exercise, in yet another way - it keeps surprising me! I love it, so subtle! Looking forward to seeing more of her.
And last but not least, Ingrid painted this lovely, graphical flowerpot, using masking fluid. It looks like a Japanese wood print, very nice!
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