painting jewelry in portraits

shasta737 wrote

on 20 Mar 2012 11:56 AM

I am looking for information on how to paint realistic looking pearls, gold, and jewels in my portraits. everytime i try googling it, it takes me to painting on jewelry! 

Thanks for any help!

anniliese wrote

on 13 Apr 2012 5:20 PM

Shasta.....try looking on the internet for that information......When I was painting a pearl necklace I found a how-to article there....took a bit of practice, but I nailed it down. Am sure you will find info for gold and silver too.

signman wrote

on 26 Apr 2012 9:17 PM

I have studied, John Singer Sargent as one of my favorite portrait artist. Read all you can about him, you wont be disappointed.You can learn alot from his techniques. Signman

BarbaraH105 wrote

on 16 Jul 2012 7:24 PM

Hi Shasta,

  One place I found on painting pearls:

youtube.............

Painting pearls

www.tamarageddes.com/  [Back in March, I hope you found what you're looking for since then..posted this anyway.

Liz

shasta737 wrote

on 17 Jul 2012 6:08 PM

thanks so much!

shasta737 wrote

on 17 Jul 2012 6:08 PM

thanks for this information!

shasta737 wrote

on 17 Jul 2012 6:09 PM

thanks so much!

jessicamendez wrote

on 27 Oct 2012 4:47 AM

Sometimes those searches need to be sorted out, the information you needs may lying behind those searches that cam out. There might no specific result, but reading those can somehow help trace the path of your needs.

Anyway, are those custom made jewelry?

KatPaints wrote

on 27 Oct 2012 11:36 AM

Signman, Do you have any references for Sargent - books, tapes, videos?

Sarah A Boardman wrote

on 27 Oct 2012 3:43 PM

I would suggest getting/borrowing some of the jewelry you want to paint, and paint it from life - that way you are an original, painting an original! Be sure to light it in the same way as the rest of the painting.