Virgen de Guadalupe Virgin of Guadalupe Master Study Website Update...

Now Up on My Website!

"Virgen de Guadalupe" Original Painting Sold

Open Edition 8"x10" Giclee Prints & Limited Edition Giclee ACEO Prints Here

"Virgen de Guadalupe" is a commission painting that I did inspired by the Virgin of Guadalupe, also known as Our Lady of Guadalupe.  I think she has a very gentle and sweet quality.  The piece has a soft realist feel.  This original is sold, but I do have it available as prints and ACEOs!

My website at http://www.lisarusso.com has many more paintings available, some of them inspired by the masters in the master art studies section!

Every week on Tuesday, I try to list a small original, some giclee art prints, and giclee LE ACEO prints at promotional prices. Visit here to see what I have available this week!


I'm joining in this week with Paint Party Friday.  To see more participants, please visit:
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29 Faces, Face 27, John Everrett Millais Study for Mariana Inspired Sketch Art...

Thus far on Sundays for the challenge, I've posted a revised sketch, but that's typically with the input of Alex of The Darker Side of Passion.  However in addition to being the person I bounce art ideas off of, he's also my tech support, for which I am also intensely thankful.  It has been a very tech issue filled week so I decided instead to do a study.  This is actually a study of a study.  John Everrett Millais of the Pre-Raphaelite movement did the "Study for Mariana" that inspired this sketch.  I don't intend to paint her, it's been a while since I've done a master inspired sketch and I definitely think this may warrant a redraw at some point...

She is face 27 for 29 faces in September.  The goal is to share 29 faces in the month of September.

I am also participating in Sunday Sketches.  To view more Sunday Sketches, please visit:

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Improved Master Study Sketch of "The Cicada" by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot...

"The Cicada" by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot is one of my favorite paintings at the Norton Simon Museum and I intend for it to be my next master study painting.  I posted this sketch last week, but I've redrawn the hands.  I think they are now much closer in size now to how they should be.  My next choice is to decide what size to do the painting.  The original is not one of our standard sizes so I'm going to have to play around with this in photoshop to determine what will fit the proportions best.


To view more Sunday Sketches, please visit:
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Master Study Sketch of "The Cicada" by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot...

"The Cicada" by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot is one of my favorite paintings at the Norton Simon Museum.  Whenever I go there, I consider myself very fortunate to have the opportunity to see it.  It occured to me that it has been a while since I've painted a master study.  This is a rough sketch of Corot's original painting that I photographed whilst visiting the museum.  I've decided in my version, more of her hair will be down.  Seeing them side by side, I realize that I definitely need to focus on her hands and redraw them, in this sketch they are tiny!  While I know that I will never capture the beauty of this master painting myself, I feel that painting a master study allows me to see into the original more deeply and learn from the experience.


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