GOAT Artist Leonardo DaVinci
Greatest Of All Time – GOAT: ARTIST Leonardo DaVinci – Mona Lisa
As an artist, you study the Masters. The critics know the best artists copy great art as expressions of skill or as a tribute. The goal is another masterpiece. The opinion of this artist is the greatest of all time artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci and his body of work sets the bar. If you explore his technical books of brainstorm explorations you see the revelations of genius and applied mechanical engineering, be it for human service or for war or the love of flight. The process of discovering Leonardo works exposes a level of thought and images of communication at much deeper perhaps political or moral symbolic levels. And his artistic obsession with the “Mona Lisa”. The subject is claimed to be the wife of wealthy merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, Lisa del Giocondo and Leonardo’s impression of her mourning beauty and the facial expression of content for eternity. History records he toted the white poplar panel oil painting with him in a wooden box for 16 years. It inquires, that the painting was a work of passion and has to contain more than just the most famous enigmatic smile in history. Perhaps as a testament to a deeper purpose than just a portrait of a veiled mourning woman, sitting in a pozzetto chair in a window framed mystic, fiery and foggy laced landscape.
The original famous artwork located at the Louvre in Paris France (77 x 53 cm / 21″x30″ ) is recreated on a 18″ x 24″ canvas format in mixed media, color pencil and acrylic paint. The painting was really inspired from the new digital color “remastering of the painting” as seen on YouTube or the PBS program. Which attempted to recreate the original mixed oil colors and details pixel by pixel as it would have been seen in the lifetime of Leonardo. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/mona-lisa-digital-makeover/
Artistic Perspective
The Greatest of All Time art is a passion of bringing historical sports or public figures to full color. The art starts with research into the personality and reviewing available images or photographs to reference. The research includes the historical location and fan fills bleacher seats for those who witness the moments. The 18” x 24 inch canvas is laid out with the contrasting color pencil of the primary figures or elements outlines. These lines become boundaries of colors, with distinguishing edges or sfumato blended or smoky edges or color – light shading or blending. The foreground is usually in focus with the subject figure in dynamic action. Careful attention is given to these autonomist positions as sometimes these are the most recognized images or captured photo moments of the subject. Crossing the finish line or hurling a fastball, the intent is the subject is flowing with eye movement so you don’t want to stop looking in on the details.
Applying color
Applying the mixed acrylic squeezed out of a tube with a 10- 20 minute dry time. Applying or blending the colors is a matter of color and water saturation. Appling the base colors from dark to light is usually the process. The base color layers then absorb the new wet layer to blend the 2-3 color mixtures to achieve the desired color or blends. The multi layers affect of adding more color achieves more intense color saturation or white or pure color to dark blending. The blank canvas to final brush stoke is normally 2-3 weeks. Working in 2-4 hours sessions usually in the early mornings. We hope you enjoy the art as intended to bring back the best of the sport! If you have a suggestion for a new GOAT please contact us.