Van Ruijven

Some more portrait practice. This is a painting of Tom Wilkinson's character, Pieter Van Ruijven, from the movie Girl with the Pearl Earring. Wilkinson is quite the chameleon - in this movie, his look was great, very classical. The painting is mostly earth tones on Rix canvas; hardly using any mediums in the midtones and lights. The values are all over the place and the thickness of the paint was a little frustrating for me at times (not used to it). But I've wanted to try a painting in this style for a while and I'm glad I did.

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