Hello! Welcome back to my channel.
I am painting old masters’ portrait work on ipad again.
The app I am using is Procreate
This time I am redoing a painting of Johannes Vermeer,
You must have seen this image before
It is called the“Girl with a Pearl Earring”.
Let me introduce myself a bit if you are here for the first time.
My name is Gloria and I love painting, especially portraits.
My art goal is to be able to paint like the great masters.
And create more unique works in the future.
This channel is in fact a part of the record of my art journey.
I hope that sharing my experience can help us learn together.
I just started this channel recently
And I wanted to begin with a series of portrait painting practice,
referring to paintings created by the old masters.
In this video I repainted Johannes Vermeer’s
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’
and wanted to turn this piece of artwork into digital art.
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter
who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life.
He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime
but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death,
perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.
Vermeer worked slowly and with great care
and frequently used very expensive pigments.
He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes.
"Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft;
they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements
and they often portray the same people, mostly women."
He was recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague
but his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death
He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting,
and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centurie
About this particular painting,
The work has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902
and has been the subject of various literary treatments.
In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Meisje met de parel) is Vermeer’s most famous oil painting.
Going by various names over the centuries,
it became known by its present title towards the end of the 20th century
after the large pearl earring worn by the girl portrayed there
In fact, it is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure.
Tronies depict a certain type or character; in this case a girl in exotic dress,
wearing an oriental turban and an improbably large pearl in her ear.
Johannes Vermeer was the master of light.
This is shown here in the softness of the girl’s face and the glimmers of light on her moist lips
And of course, the shining pearl.
After the most recent restoration of the painting in 1994,
the subtle colour scheme and the intimacy of the girl's gaze toward the viewer have been greatly enhanced.
During the restoration, it was discovered that the dark background, today somewhat mottled,
was initially intended by the painter to be a deep enamel-like green.
This effect was produced by applying a thin transparent layer of paint, called a glaze,
over the present-day black background
However, the two organic pigments of the green glaze, indigo and weld, have faded
So up to now
What do you think about this painting process video,
Vermeer, or about anything?
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By the way I'm still planning on subjects to draw
after this Old Masters portrait painting series.
You may give me some more ideas, too.
Thank you again, see you very soon. Bye!
