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Hello,
When you make a painting like this you may want to consider what you want to learn from this. It is anyway very useful to make copies after someone like Ingres. You have changed the background colour to blue. The problem is that the spatial illusion becomes a problem in this. You have used a very bright blue. In the original painting the background seems to move to behind, in your painting the blue is so bright that in the colours the spatial illusion becomes confusing. It makes the painting more flat that way. You have changed the blue of the dress into red. It would have been a challenge technically to copy it just like it was in the original. You seem to have a problem with the drawing itself. For example, the right eyebrow is in the copy lower than the left eyebrow, while in the original the right eyebrow is higher.
When you make copies I would advice to make a copy that is as much as possible close to the original, that forces you to go after the specific way of painting of an old master like Ingres. Maybe not complete paintings but maybe just hands, or eyes, or other details. Maybe there are unfinished paintings by Ingres which reveal how his method of working was.
Do you want to know specifically how Ingres worked and achieve the same kind of effect or do you consider what you do now as your own style which you temporarily adjust to the painter you copy? I think that's an important question. Especially when people try to respond to your postings.
Peter
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