This is one of my favorite images. What a room! I've thought about creating hanging wall pieces looking like the panel show here. I think it'd look great in any setting, but those powdery blues and golds look particularly good here.
Following are a couple of outstanding images related to an earlier post regarding grisaille. These are a very rare find indeed! These original hand-painted fragments of wall-covering have all the information you would ever need in order to render your own grisaille ornamentation (including remnants of the old pounce pattern), and certainly warrant a close look. I've reproduced them large so that you may really see the brushwork in detail.
Pierre Finkelstein's excellent sourcebook, The Art of Faux (for which I had the honor of assisting him produce some of the samples), teaches us how to create a rosette in grisaille. This simple lesson is fundamental to all successive work in grottesca. Here's my version of his classic rosette, on faux Bottocino marble.
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Sheer art porn....I think I just peed in my pants! ;)
ReplyDeleteThe grisaille ornament is my new screensaver...yawn...goodnight!
ReplyDeleteBeauteous Maximus! Where did you find those? I know the Finkelstein one- copied it myself, and used it to teach some others too.
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ReplyDeleteI'm getting ready to do some samples of grisaille and came back to look over your site beforehand. Thank you so much for putting this out there. You are a real gem!
Amazing specimens of ornament.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBut how to draw it?
ReplyDeleteI just ran across these, they are amazing!!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, it inspired me, breathtaking, make me drunk. Thomas
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