Dante bust finished at last!

[John Bowery]

Jay,
An absolute masterful rendition. Is is a beautiful piece. Congratulations.
Cheers
John

 

[KeithP]

Can't add to much to the comments already made. The color selections and muted tones are just lovely.

Keith

 

[Lubitch]

I can only agree with others
Beautiful and amazing rendition !


regards

Wojciech Lubicz-Lapinski

 

[Anders Heintz]

Beautiful work all around Jay. From the flesh tones to the books its all nice and well done, looking forward to see this one in person in Atlanta!

 

[ArturM]

Hello Jay,
very good painting! Flashtones and shading looks great.
Keep up the good work.

Best regards
Artur

 

[Kisifer]

Jay that's really nicely done my friend. Neat and smooth finish.

Xenofon

 

[Paul Kernan]

Jay:

Outstanding As the others have stated, the tomes for the base is brillliant. I also love the eyes and the rich mutes colours used for the clothing. Nothing garish, yet beautiful tones nonetheless. What mixes did you use for the eggplant and green?

Paul

 

[Sambaman]

Arthur, Allen, John, Keith, Wojciech, Artur, xenofon, Paul, many, many thanks for looking and all the kind words! Anders, I'm REALLY looking forward to Atlanta, see ya there! Thanks again guys!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[Sambaman]

Paul,
sory forgot to answer your questions. For the mixes, you'll have to forgive my shody descriptions here, but when I'm mixing I tend to throw in whatever's on the pallete sometimes. I use a very abriviated pallete of colors. The green is basically sap green, raw umber, titanium white, yellow ochre and probably a touch of paynes gray if it was on the pallete. I used titanium white to lighten the midtone and highlight. For the purple I used cad red, pthalo blue and or paynes gray a touch of titanium white and raw umber. The raw umber works well to "tone down" the colors, that's to say it tends to make the colors a bit muddy, but used in moderation it does a great job of "graying" down certain color mixes. Sorry for the less than acurate description. HTH,

Jay H.
OKC

 

[slaj]

Jay , you did a great job . Well done

Stephen Mallia

 

[moore]

Hi Jay,

I really like the colors you choose, like everyeone has said
the shades and highlights are really fantastic.

I hope to meet you in Atlanta next year.

Best Regards
Dee

 

[Sambaman]

Stephen, Dee,
many thanks for the kind words.

Dee, I am beside myself wating for the trip to Atlanta. It will be my first trip to Georgia and my first time to that show. Heck, it's the first show outside of Tulsa I will have the opportunity to attend. I hope to meet all sorts of folks there. I will be sure to introduce myself when there. Thanks again!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[jerry]

Jay,

amazing job, really well done, great choice of colors and original pedestal,.... ibrief very good work mate.

Ciao,
Jerry

 

[Sambaman]

Jerry,
you are too kind. Thanks for the kind words!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[Angaliel]

Hi Jay,

I really enjoy to see your painted version.
I do like the colors tones you used.

The books are a F*ù%^*ù good idea

JP

 

[Paul Kernan]

Sorry for the less than acurate description.

Not at all. You have given me enough to get going with. Thanks and again, great job.

 

[Sambaman]

JP, thanks for the compliment. The books were a hoot to do!

Paul, glad I could help out!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[Christos]

Beautiful painting Jay!
my best regards
christos

 

[Sambaman]

Christos,
many thanks for the kind comments!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[Dan Morton]

Jay - I love the blended shading without (as Luca pointed out) loss of contrast. How do you do that? Superb colors! Great job!

All the best,
Dan