Vermeer

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1. jeff says

   The guy who runs that site is a pretty good painter in his own right. I does very inter­est­ing remakes on Vermeer’s.

   18 September 2007, 1:25 PM Reply
2. David says

   Jeff,

   I agree, although I found it amus­ing that he thinks that acrylic primer is the best ground to use if you want to “paint your own Ver­meer” with a close approx­i­ma­tion of Vermeer’s mate­ri­als and methods.

   18 September 2007, 7:46 PM Reply
3. Incompetent says

   Given Vermeer’s vision­ary qual­i­ties, I wouldn’t be sur­prised if time travel was also one of his talents.

   19 September 2007, 9:26 AM Reply
4. erin libby says

   I have sniffed (nose up) at the acrylic grounds and under­paint­ing. I con­fess that , in spite of my dis­dain, I have done a few pieces just that way. I was work­ing on a tight sched­ule and planned to charge less than $iooo, for the pieces. (See my head hang­ing down in shame.) Recently, I heard that this tech­nique may last only 25 years and, in an arti­cle, an expert said some­thing like, “I think it is sound, but there hasn’t been enough time.”

   Any real data? I would never be so care­less with a major work. In fact, What I have started doing is to coax more vari­ety of painter­ly­ness out of the acrylics, using them with­out any addi­tion of oil. ( I’ll find a photo as soon as I fig­ure out how to add one.)

   21 July 2009, 3:48 AM Reply
   • David Rourke says

     Erin,

     I don’t like to paint on acrylic grounds, but it’s not a hor­ri­ble sin, either. There is not a lot of real data at this point indi­cat­ing that paint­ing on acrylic primer is an awful thing to do.

     29 July 2009, 12:42 AM Reply