One Sunday Afternoon
 

Hello All,

This is a an oil painting I

Face Detail
 

A direct scan where I could try to capture the value range.

Another detail

I've pushed the paints to near the limits in this painting, and it's clobbering my digital technology. Apologies for the egregious use of bandwidth.

Atmosphere
 

Like I said.

Interesting composition John!

Were those floor-tiles inspired by Vermeer?

I like the way you put the objects on the table in an almost geometrical order.

It works very good, spatially.

I like the composition and have no problem with where the center of interest is. The perspective seems to work pretty well too. The face and hands however, could use some reworking. Do you have good reference for those areas, or could you shoot some more?

Greetings Peter and Michelle,

Yes, the floor tiles were inspired by Pieter de Hooch, Vermeer, and lots of other Dutch painters. This is one of those

John,

I like this painting a lot. The floor is off to me, but I like it. The only thing that bothers me is the hand holding the wineglass. Her fingers look so long, almost as if they are as long as the entire hand. Maybe too large as well.

Layout drawing with perspective lines.
 

I had to scan this drawing in three sections and piece it together digitally, but it's accurate enough to show the distortion I added to the floor tiles. The blue and green lines go to the vanishing points for the walls and moldings. The red lines go to the points for the tiles. Clearly, the vanishing points for the walls fall way off the canvas, while the points for the tiles are just off the scan at the edges of the drawing.