Menzel did several studies of armor in the 1860s, and they all have a lifelike quality, as if they're animated and looking at you.
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Thursday, December 18, 2014
Menzel Armor Study
Menzel did several studies of armor in the 1860s, and they all have a lifelike quality, as if they're animated and looking at you.
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Thanks, Christian
GJ Post on painting in an armory
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Beautiful!
What a great lesson on what you can do with an extremely limited palette (admittedly the subject matter is ideal for this). From the webpage cited, it appears to be gouache and pencil only on brown paper. The only colors I detect are black, white, blue and the paper's brown.
You didn't reference your earlier related post http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/11/higgins-armory.html
An amazing study, especially when you see how loosely painted it is. It looks like gouache to me as well.
Wikimedia Commons has an excellent hi-rez image of "Armor Chamber Fantasy":
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Menzel_-_%22Armor_Chamber_Fantasy%22,_1866_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Menzel lived from 1815 - 1905.
Who knows what James Gurney's sketchbook auction-pre-sale estimates will be in the year 2099?...and what they will be actually sold for?-)
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