Portrait of a young girl by Rubens

I’ve started making a copy of this beautiful portrait painting by Rubens, with a view to learning about his underpainting and glazing technique. I realised its quite similar in subject to the first portrait I added to my youTube channel, so it feels fitting that its also the first on my new Patreon channel. All my real- time videos will be there from now on so please have a look patreon.com/mattharveyart

I will try and get a bit more information about this painting when I have time, but for now here are some images of the work in progress.

1st pass on grisaille underpainting with raw umber and titanium white. Next to original Peter Paul Rubens painting

1st and 2nd pass on grisaille underpainting with raw umber and titanium white. All filmed in real time on patreon.com/mattharveyart

The video of the second hour of the first pass is available on youtube:

And this is how it compares at the moment. Glazing next!

2nd pass of grisaille next to original. I was fairly happy with it at this stage because I can continue the drawing when I paint the glazes. You can go as far as you like at this point in modelling all the transitions, but I like the way glazing can also do this for you