KathrynLaw

While I was working on the Goya in the last post, the folks in charge of NGA's Art Around the Corner program came by to ask if I might b...

  This is Goya's portrait of Bartolome Sureda y Miserol, from 1803-4. My version is near completion here, I did change the aspect ratio ...

It's a different world than it was when I last posted here over two years ago. The pandemic started, and since I was living in DC (one o...

Life has been quite a ride this past two months, including moving (twice) and having an up-close-and-personal encounter with an unwell wild ...

The Kenyon Cox piece is finished, I'll update the image in the previous post. The next project will be this glorious painting by Archiba...

Making good progress on Kenyon Cox, might be completed in one more session. Still a lot to do, but it's coming together well. The ma...

After a layoff for some health issues and a digression into more drawing and watercolor, it's back to work in oil at the National Galler...

This one is done now, and I'm very happy with the result. I've also finished a Vermeer commission, and will post that below the Remb...

This is a lovely Rembrandt portrait at the National Gallery, and a copy was commissioned by the good people who bought my painting of the Li...

Two projects in process currently: a commission for Vermeer's Milkmaid, and a commissioned Rembrandt at the National Gallery. The Verm...

I'm wrapping up my latest National Gallery Copyist painting, and this one has an interesting background. I'll also talk more about t...

Probably one session left to finish this. Up close, there is still quite a bit to do. We must keep the materials at least 4 feet from t...

Here are two portraits of the same sitter, and a story to go along with them. I'll start with the one that I feel best captures w...

Last week, my husband took this shot of me working on my Lievens copy. Made good progress this week, starting the eyes and some of the sk...

Here are the second and third in the series of portraits. In these difficult times, portrait painting makes me feel more connected than anyt...

Here is the final image of my rendition of Van Gogh's Roses. I learned a lot about how he applied paint, especially as I worked the last...