Wednesday, 27 October 2010

FIGURES FROM THE SISTENE CHAPEL CEILING

Still working on practice sketches for my Italian visit, I went to my wonderful full colour plate book MICHELANGELO - THE FRESCOES OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL which I purchased a few years back at a local library sale. I was hooked when I came to the chapter on SEERS - ie prophets and sibyls. So began a series of watercolour and pen sketches using my Daniel Smith paints and Lamy pen with noodlers Lexington grey ink. Here are three efforts:

Jeremiah - lost in thought

I think the hands are a bit big but pleased with all the colours I managed to put into the flesh.


The Libyan Sibyl

Afraid she has turned out rather masculine and squashed at the top of the sketchbook page.


Zechariah - the Hebrew Prophet

This, in fact, was my first one and as you can see the head is too small. Well! its only practice and I have not done figures for ages.

To be continued at some stage.

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3 comments:

  1. RH Carpenter27 October 2010 at 23:04

    Wow, the first and second are gorgeous! Well done :) I think you stopped on the last one (which was actually the first?) when you realized the head was too small.

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  2. Sandra Rowney29 October 2010 at 22:19

    You kindly showed me the inspirational book when I last visited - wonderful pictures of the ceiling. It'll be wonderful to see it for real after all this research.

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  3. Crystal Cook31 October 2010 at 22:11

    Wow, those are beautiful! SO fresh and lively. :) I love them.

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