The Yellow Jersey in William's Studio Painting

Watch the videos on my YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh37nIZCpaw&index=17&list=PLMXPSzDKAHguNOkRkAriud_5O0Q96mtMm Author: William Marquina Buitrago Title: "Yellow Jersey in William's Studio" Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 85 x 65 cm (33,46” x 25,59”) Dimensions of the frame: 101 x 85 cm (39,76” x 33,46”) Series: Picasso copy Production date: May-August 2018 Description: This copy is a study for "Yellow Jersey", original of Pablo Picasso who made it on October 31, 1939, and is the portrait of one of his lovers, Dora Maar. Both the realization of the copy, as the canvas and the frame, was made by myself: the canvas was made from raw linen and stretched on a red cedar frame, including the gesso to prime the canvas, for which I used paint Synthetic water, white calcium carbonate, talc, and PVC rubber; while the handmade frame is made of wood and stone plaster settings and painted in brown, purple-red and bronze lacquer colors. The original measurements of the portrait of Picasso are 81 x 65 cm, however, the width of my copy has the same, which is 65 cm, with the height of the copy being a little higher, about 85 cm exact. My intention in this copy is to study the brushstrokes and colors of the original. Copying is an arduous and slow process because it requires waiting for the opportune moment behind each step of superimposing the spots and strokes, experimenting and discovering the different steps of the process that Picasso did. Nearly seven forms of brushstrokes would Picasso execute for this painting. I also studied the colors he used in advance to later overlay others: his palette is summarized in the following: ocher sienna, alizarine carmine, orange, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, natural sienna, Vandyke brown, black and white. The strokes with the brush are summarized in: spliced, juxtaposed, melted, liquefied, so, all these technical alternatives were executed by combining families of colors towards the violet and the other towards the ocher, while the straw green color in the hat, sustains the balance of the two tensions complementing these two families, and finally adding the orange-red in the upper middle of the painting (the lips of Dora Maar) to accentuate the attention of the entire composition of the painting. Finally, I can say that making this copy was very satisfactory for me because I approached Picasso's pictorial thought as I entered a fascinating process of deciphering the techniques that the artist could have executed. Somehow the spirit of Picasso's painting absorbed me to such an extent that I could apparently feel that by imitating his style, he transported me to the moment in which he executed his work. I would like people to rediscover in this copy a reflection of Picasso. Keywords: Picasso, copy, copying, oil, original, cubism, canvas, Yellow Jersey, woman, Dora Maar, portrait, modern art.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25.6 W x 33.5 H x 2 D in

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