#vintage paintings

[autumncottageattic]

Gerhard Munthe (1849-1929) The Artist’s Wife in the Gazebo

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[lagniappeprintingco]

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LagniappePrintingCo

If you're interested in the above pintables for Halloween, follow the link to my shop!

[mremograndpa]

Heaven and Hell, c. 1850

Octave Tassaert

Oil on fabric

Source

[classicalcanvas]

Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

[tgsclassics]

When notable paperback cover artist Jack Faragasso was an ambitious young student at the prestigious Art Students League of New York, he hired Bettie Page as a reference model. This is one of his pictures from 1952. Faragasso would go on to paint hundreds of covers, and ultimately teach art at the League.

Bettie Page Standing # 428 Photographed by Jack Faragasso

[possessedpasm]

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

[abnormes]

On the Seashore, George Elgar Hicks (1879)

[liivn]

medieval heart-shaped prayer book in a medieval painting and in real life

[cheesy-cryptid]

Sharing a recent commission that holds a very special place in my heart 🥹🫶

My commissions are still open!!

[the-paradigm-web]

[john-william-waterhouse-art]

-Hylas and the Nymphs-

[hyphose]

Wakaba Shinohara, Nanami Kiryuu, Juri Arisugawa - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire

There it is, a triptych of my favorite duels from each season, and coincidentally my favorite characters.

[antlersnteeth]

Andrew Wyeth; Wind From the Sea 1947

[classicalcanvas]

Water painted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

[graphicgleeshop]

https://society6.com/art/rhapsody-in-fur

A woman sits with her vibrant and graceful cat, capturing a timeless moment of companionship and interaction.

[vintagehomecollection]

Country Kitchens, 1991