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I JUST LOVE PAINTER ;-)
It's is a remake of Old arab man, which I did in pastel look. This one is on oil technique and personally I like it more than the pastel. I really tried to similate the impasto brush stroke and it really went well. If you look closely you can almost see the paint strokes laying on top of each other.

I call it No more No less, because to me this man looks to satisfied. He is old, lived his life, but he look fulfilled, so No more No less........

Hope you enjoy watching it, because that's why I make them ;-)

Link to high res version http://gallery.zoom.nl/image/1022054/html

Masterfully done! The high-resolution hyperlinked version is beautiful.

Just wondering...

1. how did you achieve the texture in the background?

2. did you build up the colors and then paint impasto, or just completely impasto?

Thank you for sharing your artwork -- both the subject and applied skill is very inspirational.

Wow! This is just awesome, the hi rez version is incredible!

wow,  again a great portrait !

Klecksel

Fantastic picture, it's so detailed and expressive.

 Odwin this is wonderful the brush strokes are fantastic.  Could you tell me which brush you used on his face and which one you used on his mustache. I was also wondering if this is from scratch or did you use a photograph as a base for the painting?  I know I am asking a lot of questions but we dont learn by keeping our mouths shut.  Again I want you to know I think it is Beautiful.  Very Very well done.

I know this guy! Well not really, but I have seen that look in so many parks; playing chess, feeding the birds, chatting ... a really wonderful painting that celebrates age. Fantastic brush strokes.

 Another wonderful character beautifully painted. ... well done.

Odwin,

Please do me a favor and post just one portrait that isn't beautifully done so I know that you're human! I sound like a broken record making comments on your incredible portraiture.  You have a rare gift!

Steve

Hi Bobby,

I use several brushes for my portraits, but for hair/fur I use the Acrylics-Captured Bristle brush. Here you can see "my toolkit" :

As an answer to the question Kathy asked in an other topic, where she ask what brushes I use I put together my toolbox for painting. I just want to share this with you so I also place it over here: The brush set I use contains several brushes from the DVD I bought from Fay Sirkis, but I'll try to translate them to the standard brushes the are based on also the tools I use in Painter and Photoshop. I use this set on all paintings and the toolbox just keeps growing ;-) Brushes & Tools Painter X Grainy Water Water rake Impressionist paint Impressionist blender Cezanner brush; this is a captured brush Fay made, but it is easy the make it myself, it has the look and feel of a Real Bristle Brush Chalk David Gell' Living Oils (mainly the sponges) Acrylics-Captured Bristle brush Brush tool Eraser Apply surface texture-->3d strokes or Image luminace; I do not use it on every picture because it does not always work out Brushes & Tools Photoshop CS3 Soft brush (hardness 0%) Chalk brush 23 px; I use this brush for my layer masks Dodge/Burn/Saturate Sharpen-->unsharp mask Color range selection; I use this for highlights and shadows in human portraits Layer masks Layer modes; Overlay, Multiply....., mostly I just play around with these and see what I like best Clone tool Healing brush Lasso selection tool Well that's about it I think, these are my tools I use for painting, or you could also say photomanipulation going over the top and beyond, because that's what it is. I never start with an empty canvas. I always use the photo as a starting point from with I try to emulate this old style painting I just love. So hopefully my toolbox can bring you to new idea's Odwin This post has been edited by Odwin: Feb 8 2009, 06:23 AM - A thing of joy is beautiful forever ;-) - Simplicity is the road between too much and too little My website: www.studioodwin.com

Hi Ednah,

1. I just mix up a background, adding colors, distort and blend, then when the painting is completely done I add a surface control->apply surface tecture-->3d strokes. I do this only on the layer where I lay down the "real" looking brush strokes.

2. I NEVER use impasto, I really don't like the effect Painter does on impasto, it just doesn't look natural to me, but that could also be my short coming ;-)

Odwin

Off course I would like to thank everybody for being so kind to watch my painting(s) and giving me all these wonderful comments and compliments. I really fills my heart with joy ;-) so a BIG thank you to all of you!!!

Odwin

 Thank you for sharing your tool box! It's always interesting to see what brushes, tools, etc. someone else uses, especially when their work is of such high calibre. Your paintings are beautiful!

Fantastic portrait with lovely brushwork, the high resolution is worth checking. Great example for malcontents who dislike digital painting as a "plastic" medium for it feels like a real paint. Well done! I need to learn to make such bold brush strokes myself, I still try to polish them.

 I agree with Karolina... digital doodlin' is cool - done properly, I think few can tell whether it's digital or "real" media
personally, I grew tired in the middle '90s with smearing oils, cleaning up, the stink and dog/cat hair getting stuck in my paint.... and real airbrush + friskets, etc... just forget that! and customer revisions are a nightmare

fine piece