medium: oil on canvas

 

da Vinci, Mona Lisa

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I see groupings of two toned hues with values of her skin, back ground, sedia (chair) - octavio ocampo, dress and hair & the sky...  The colors are grouped like a grisaille is made as grey or a tone off the grey but more like a world map as each land mass continent is a varying hue and values - that about the Mona Lisa compared to grouping of color (& I think that it a compliment to her most famous painting in the world comparative as a statement fitting for her regard).  The dimensions of her Gherardini modeled art are 30 x 21 inches.  I have made some alike in size and some larger and smaller.  She has a hand over the other hand - her fingers are adjusting themselves in the renderings as media carpel are able to adjust there positions like playing music instruments - piano or banjo/guitar/bass/recorder...  She tells me loving stuff - her artist is loving and it shows too.  Her glow is like a mother's feverish essence of harmonious calms and loving pride...  She has good looking facial structure by her cheeks soft as plush looking and also yellow golden tones of that facial skin looking quality.  Mona looks happy and not really perfectly happy - maybe she is poor, or, her model was hired inexpensively as a guess to starving artists and their models for lower as efficient costs for their studios.  Her image's posture is seated and turned as posing toward the viewer from her right side back and her left toward the viewer.  The line in the sky is not intentionally a line as it is taught that there is a rip in the original poplar wood - weird, how wood can rip, but, transferred onto canvas as restoration artists do, I understand it...