Friday 16 January 2015

Finally Friday

It's been a working week, so I didn't have much time for art. Therefore I'm showing you some paintings I have done in December.
They are all made from portraits by old masters.

The first is part of a larger painting, 1square meter, where the reference is from Agnolo Bronzino (again):


The next portrait is a portrait I painted as a book cover after a painting by Ivan or Jacob Argunov, it was not quite clear which of the two painted the unknown woman:


Below you see a portrait I did of Kunigunde of Austria (ca 1485) after a portrait by an unknown artist:


Lastly I show you this portrait of Alexandra Pavlovna ca 1790, (princess of Russia) I painted on a box as part of a birthday present for my niece:


I enjoyed painting these portraits. I hadn't done a lot of painting so the change from the pencils/graphite was wonderful!

Thank you all for visiting and have a wonderful weekend!

I'm sharing my post on the Paint Party Friday

22 comments:

  1. Wow, really fantastic! I hope you will make us happy and link up again to Art Journal Journey! Hugs, Valerie

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  2. Hi Ilona. These are excellent. Love the look.

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  3. It is interesting ot paint of old masters works. You have done it great and surely learned a lot too! To day I write in English. Happy PPF!

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  4. Solch beeindruckende Portraits... ich bin wieder mal restlos begeistert!
    Happy PPF!

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  5. these are fantastic-I love the old masters look and feel and the eyes and expressions are great!

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  6. Fabulous...I was excited about the first one and then I saw the second just as stunning and I love the third one too....stunning work my friend!

    Hugs Giggles

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  7. Llona, I love your very classically done faces. I really like splotchy look you are starting with in the top painting. It is exciting and colorful.

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  8. So well done! Keep painting!!!!

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  9. In December you were a very busy artist to produce such gorgeous paintings. I love your portraits.

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  10. Your first portrait is so beautiful with these lovely colours and the abstracted technique you use round her face, and the second face is quite modern. I like them all, so realistic yet still a painting.

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  11. Beautiful portraits.They look so professional.

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  12. The portraits are creatively wonderful. Tiny pic, yikes. . . totally amazing to me. The owl in your last post is a fave (all birds are wonderful). I would love to visit all those sites on my art blog (Documented Life Journal Project). It's good to have a grasp to exceed. Thank you for visiting. I love all your blogs. I became a follower of this one. Blessings, Janet PPF

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    1. Thank you for the follow Janet! :-) I'm glad you like my other blogs as well!
      And thanks for your lovely comment, I like birds in art as well and owls are favorites of mine!
      Ilona xx

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  13. Wonderful inspirations *and* paintings ~ these are all wonderful!

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  14. These are beautiful. I particularly like the last one. Thanks for visiting.

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  15. Das sind ja wunderschöne Portraits! Ich bin ganz hingerissen. Vor allem das zweite Portrait und das letzte haben es mir angetan. Ich finde auch die Idee so toll, es auf eine Schachtel zu malen und das als Geschenk zu kombinieren.

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  16. Hej :)
    Fedt at se, at du har tilmeldt dig "28 dage i farver" :D
    Spændende blog du har!
    ☼ Maiken

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    1. Hej Maiken! Tak for besøget! Jeg glæder mig til at blive inspireret og holdt i gang i februar! Jeg vil kombinere farverne med portrætter, emnet for en anden "challenge" som jeg nu vil deltage i på 3. år!
      Hilsen Ilona

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    2. Aj, hvor fedt!
      Portrætter er også emnet for mine 28 dage :D
      Det bliver super!

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