Color

The Virgin of the Rocks is a painting originally made by Leonardo da Vinci in the year 1483-86.  There are two Virgin of the Rock paintings – one in the Louvre, Paris, France and one at the London National Gallery, England.  The original is at the Louvre.  The virgin of the composition is Mary, mother of Jesus.  Mary is also known as Madonna and hence the alter artwork title, Madonna of the Rocks.

I paint the oil on canvas shown above.  In my version of the study of the Virgin of the Rocks, I take just but one month to get to this dynamic by color and value, likeness and study, version and own depiction of the Virgin of the Rocks.  I did this timeless painting by preparing drawings and making a preliminary painting of smaller stature.

The likeness to the original Virgin of the Rocks is very close by representation and very far by color scheme and figure faces.  I am by no means an imposter.  As I am on the final stages of this painting, I leave only but the floral which in my painting will be bright yellow with green edges.  The floral will tie together to blocky shapes by coverage.

As one can see in my painting, the figures are all different by color value of the faces, but alike by color values of the entire figure – different ways to represent the unification of the color value and the balance that is meant by unification.  Even recently discovered by myself are the dark to light values of the wings balance by the dark to light values of the water.

Back to the floral for a paragraph.  There is a hell of a lot of floral in this painting – approximately 30 – 40% of the canvas area.  Since there are to be so much yellow and green little blends that cover the rough lines of colors black to deep purple, I consider myself finished with the painting up to the point of the floral.  Finally, I use my own bright colors to exemplify the composition to how I like it – not if  it will be liked, also unified by color.