In the Mood for … Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring – Final Act!

  In the Mood for … Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring And here it is – the final act of my latest painting! As you can see, I added some final brushstrokes for the lips, the ear and the headscarf, and also added the earring at last! P.S. If you would like to

In the Mood for … Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring – Part IV

I did it! Finally I´ve managed to shorten the nose from “my” girl 🙂 Better now, don´t you think?   But of course, it´s still far from being finished…

In the Mood for… Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring – Part III

Another week has passed and I worked more on my latest painting. As you can see, I concentrated my focus mainly on the nose: now she actually has some nostrils, but all in all, the nose is still too long for my taste:( But I didn´t paint it over at once, ´cause I think it

In the Mood for … Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring – Part II

I found some time over the last weekend to work further on my Vermeer-like painting! I “closed” the area around the eyes a bit (now it doesn´t look like she´s wearing too much eye liner anymore:) ) and started giving the skin a little bit more texture. I´m still not happy with the nose and

In the Mood for . . . Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring – Part I

I started a new painting last weekend and thought that it might be interesting for you to see the whole process bit by bit instead of just being presented with the result… 🙂 As you can see from the title – and probably already from the painting as well – it´s heavily influenced by one