tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87522385389410288752024-03-14T05:14:22.806-04:00Arts with Doc MuzzyA chance to have at me. Ask questions, maybe get answers! about Art in the time between 1714 and 1811.
The life span of John D Muzzy.And about life in that time.Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-30339915947680372372012-07-01T17:08:00.001-04:002012-07-01T17:11:54.974-04:00double breasted weskits<div><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;">Francis Noel Clarke Mundy. c.1762-3. Oil on canvas. 127 x 101.6 cm</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;">He commissioned Wright to do 6 portraits.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;">Francis Noel Clarke Mundy was born 15 August 1739 at Osbaston Hall, Osbaston, Leicestershire, which at that time belonged to the Mundys, a family which had been based in Markeaton since John Mundy bought lands in Derbyshire. He received his education at Repton School and at Winchester and then proceeded to New College, Oxford.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;">In 1762-3, Joseph Wright exhibited a set of six portraits that were commissined by Mundy. Each of the portraits were in the distinctive dress of the Markearton Hunt consisting of yellow breeches and a blue coat over a scarlet waitcoat. These paintings hung at the ancestral home of Markeaton Hall. The subjects of these commissions included old school friends like Harry Peckham K.C. and relatives like his brother-in-law, Francis Burdett.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div>Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-48330035284326624692012-05-13T15:08:00.001-04:002012-05-13T15:08:55.129-04:00<span>My 18th Century Private style portrait of the Lady In The Woods was presented to Mad Annie Bailey at the Frontier post in Powell Valley known to Reenactors as Martin's Station. I introduced it as "The Other Side of Mad Annie Bailey. Her mother should be pleased! It was Mother's Day Week end!</span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>The subject is smiling, which was, and is very hard for a sitter to do constantly while the artist did the pose; and the eyes are on the viewer, considered then as 'confrontational' or 'intimate' there fore would be a private piece!</span></div>Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-80739347163440892112012-05-13T14:29:00.001-04:002012-05-13T14:54:13.843-04:00This Artist created Drawspace! She is one of the greats in my humble opinon. I learned a lot from her!<div><a href="http://www.drawspace.com/lessons/">http://www.drawspace.com/lessons/</a> </div>Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-29645350535022954332012-05-01T12:09:00.002-04:002012-05-01T12:13:18.578-04:00Sketched background oil portraitIn 1828, Sir Thomas Lawrence did this portrait of William Wilberforce. It is a primary sketch on a prepared background using a graphite piece and then adding oil paint to the face area. Perhaps the balance was left to his students who were also called 'drapery artists' to finish the details. Sir Joshua Reynolds did this by painting just the faces and his many students finished the balance. In this manner Reynolds could do as many as 6 portraits in a 10 AM until 4 PM workdayDoc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-33866823247278149062012-04-25T18:46:00.000-04:002012-04-25T18:47:11.481-04:00Sir Edward Hale<span >Philippe Mercier [French Painter, ca.1689-1760] who worked in England from 1716. One of his finished pieces is of Sir Edward Hale shown in his hunting outfit!</span>Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-7243942606603750122012-04-25T17:43:00.000-04:002012-04-25T17:43:01.463-04:00<br />
Here is a prime example of what is noted as a "Field Sketch" by Philippe Mercier called PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN done in the 3rd quarter 18th century held in the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts<br />
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<br /></div>Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-44044882401334785272012-04-24T21:25:00.002-04:002012-04-24T21:25:20.954-04:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My preferred art media is oil, but I have worked with some acrylic, water colours and pen or graphite and paper. Water colours are something I am still working to improve!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The old way was to use a watercolour to tint a page and then to draw using white, red and or black chalk. Graphite and charcoal were also use to illustrate composition. Once the composition was approved, then an oil painting was performed. Many times just a sketch of a part was done for reference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of course not all of those great masters had to do this, once they had established themselves, they just painted the portrait!</span>Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-79625467428702019042009-02-21T22:39:00.002-05:002012-04-24T20:46:32.445-04:00books on classical art workhttp://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204198772<br />
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http://www.aristidesarts.com/Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752238538941028875.post-65757101450207715842009-02-04T13:12:00.001-05:002012-04-24T20:42:32.553-04:00I do NOT know everything!Contrary to what I have told everyone . . .I do NOT know everything! I have endeavored to persevere! I started doing art at age 10 when a pretty 13 year old blonde asked me if I could draw her a picture of a giraffe. I grinned up at her sunny blue eyes and said: "Sure" and I never looked back.<br />
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Now after handling over 30,000 artworks in my artistic endeavors I chose to mimic a few 18th century artists who did portrait work of their patrons. Only I do it of my peers in the reenacting field.<br />
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Care to sit for a portrait?<br />
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Then if any have questions I shall endeavor to find an answer.<br />
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My favorites are listed in no particular order. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Copley, Boiley, David, Stuart, and West. The emphasis on the full named ones.<br />
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Any Suggestions? Or Questions? I am as you must know still learning techniques!Doc Muzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873691603482942684noreply@blogger.com0