The Mirror (after Frank Dicksee)
This is a fascinating combination of acrylic, paper, refractive paint and inks to explore where I feel the pre-Raphaelites may have gone had they had the freedom and the materials we have available today.
It is the first of a new series of paintings and is the most refreshing and exciting thing to work on. I love the Pre-Raphaelite paintings, but I feel they have always needed a treatment beyond the tight controls of the genre.
The brotherhood were masters of portraiture and I couldn’t find a better way of exploring the techniques they employed. Watch out for more of these coming soon ! :-)
The Mirror (after Frank Dicksee) belongs to the following groups:
1 on 1: The Fine Art of PortraitureAvailable for sale as Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints and Framed Prints
Brian Towers, 3 months ago
A masterpiece of unusual mixed-media Melissa
NCOFFEY2008, 3 months ago
tremendous. i love the old world masters as well
Woodie, 3 months ago
This is absolutely brilliant use of other media other than paint..
Every effective Cheers Neil
Matthew Thornburg, 3 months ago
Beautiful work! Skin tone is perfect.
Tahnja, 3 months ago
omg Melissa, am I dead? Cause I think I just found artistic heaven!!! Oh my this is so romantically beautiful and blissful. Awesome work!
Headcrime, 3 months ago
Great work! Favorit!
Ange, 3 months ago
beautiful.
Melissa Mailer..., 3 months ago
Tahnja, if you were alive when the Pre-Raphs were doing their thing no doubt you would be making the dresses for them !! :-) Thanks all for your great comments.
Jean Hildebrant, 3 months ago
Gorgeous!!!
Hidemi Tada, 3 months ago
wonderful!
fullcirclemand..., 2 months ago
Amazing work – love the preRaphaelites, specially Sir Frank:) I’ve often wondered what the old school could do with what we have today:)
Firedrake, about 1 month ago
Beautiful! You just want to reach out and touch it.
Al Neaimi, 18 days ago
super ,love it in many ways , well done.
catherine walker, 15 days ago
you painted this.. ?
totally amazing work..wonderful!