Last Supper Oil Painting Commission A few months ago I was commissioned to paint a version of the Last Supper for a client. I visited the space, came up with some ideas that would fit the room, including scale and colors, and after a few months of painting held up by an unheated studio in…
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Back At It!
Jan 2014 – Winters in Austin are not very hard. Even the coldest snaps and random and rare ice storms inflict a mere trifle of discomfort and inconvenience onto Austinites. This winter has had a couple of rough cold and wet patches which hasn’t been great, but the worst has been the weather’s affect on…
Last Supper – Thirteen Days In…
Nov 2013 – The work on the Last Supper continues along as the painting moves past the underpainting and into what I always consider the real work – finagling with the drawing, checking composition, adjusting values, and building up colors and layers of paint. Despite promises to the contrary made to a lot of colleagues…
Last Supper: Three Days In…
The early days of work on the Last Supper Commission continue… All the work continues on the underpainting and cleaning up the rough edges of the transferred drawing. I rescaled some of the figures (mainly the three men on the far left), slid Jesus over a little, and planned to re-position the column before Jesus…
work on the Last Supper
If you haven’t heard yet, I’ve been commissioned to paint a large scale painting of my interpretation of the Last Supper. After running the sketch by the client, I made some color studies, built, stretched and prepared the 11′ x 5.5′ canvas, and spent a few hours the other night transferring the drawing.
The process of a commission – the stretcher
A Large Painting Stretcher. Always a project to build. So I’m working on a commission of the Last Supper. The first words out of my client’s mouth were: “I don’t want a copy of the famous one, I want it in your style.” Feeling relieved, I checked out the space in her house it will…