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Famous painting - Honthorst
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December.24.2013 DIN-A3 16.5 x 11.7 inch
Description
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist | Gerrit van Honthorst (1590–1656) |
Title | 'The Adoration of the Shepherds' |
Date | 1622 |
Period | Baroque |
Technology | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 150 × 191 cm (59.1 × 75.2 in) |
Location | Wallraf-Richartz-Museum |
Informations
- Honthorst more than once painted the theme (I have discovered 5 different images from him with the 'Christmas'-idea)
- When I was searching for a representation of the Christmas motif, this old painting still was the best (even next to modern representations)
- Honthorst is known for his 'candle-light’ paintings. The shadows are very sharp and the bright/dark areas build very strong contrasts
- Apparently Honthorst knew Rubens and they met each other
Duration of the drawing
Predrawing | 12hours |
Black-shading | 9hours |
Soft-shading rough | 5hours |
Soft-shading smooth | 7hours |
Finished Drawing | 1hour |
Total | 34hours |
Today, after several other drawings of famous-paintings, I’m not sure if I would use a detailed pre drawing for this painting, like I did in the year 2013.
At the very end of the drawing, I realized that the three shepherd figures are hardly distinguishable because of their brightness. I then put a finger in graphite powder and darkened the two rear figures by lightly brushing - luckily I didn’t think about that action in the first place, because I would never have done that (happens to me all the time - but it works - ufff!) 
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Steps
top/left predrawing (pencil)
top/right blackshading (pencil)
bottom/left softshading rough (graphite-powder with fingers)
bottom/right softshading smooth (graphit-powder with folded paper)
bottom hardshading (pencil)
final drawing
Tools/Material
| Paper | normal printer-papier (DIN-A4...A6) normal sketchbook paper (DIN-A3) |
| Pencil HB | for pre drawing, fine lines, area-darkening and graphite-powder |
| Eraser | (2 x 2 x 0.6 cm) for area-lightening |
| Eraser | (small - at the end of a pencil) to smear graphite-powder |
| Sandpaper | to produce graphite-powder with the HB-pencil |
| Paper handkerchief | to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (wide areas) |
| Finger | to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (middle areas) |
| Pen with bicycle tube | to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (small areas) |
| Cardboard | to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (tiny areas) |
| Eraser-template | simple construction with a gap (1 x 30mm) |
| Eraser-template | simple construction with a gap (1 x 2mm) |
| Extra papers | to protect areas |
Version March.15.2015
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