A "Disney Princess coloring book challenge" has been going around lately. The premise: take a Disney Princess coloring book page and paint it in the style of a classical painting of your choice. Check out the fantastic studies Ryan Wood and Sam Nielsen did (it started on Ryan Wood's blog from what I understand). Also, check out Avalanche Software's amazing art blog...the guys and girls there do some really fun stuff.
Here is the original art (copyright Disney):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnD_rIPwcnnrebvCVYxt-Nji8hR0RZVGgX6mntP29RBOuTTGgviut8p3N85j725ou83ZXBvjz6LTIvmrS-qXdpvvgMQucaGcS8tzDjTojvq_wOhE7JHb-3jI8yF_t2Stl6pdBhFEf1bmwP/s280/ariel_coloringbook.jpg)
The classical artist I chose was Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. I'd seen "Portrait of Countess Kinsky" up close at the Norton Simon before and it came to mind when I chose to paint this coloring book page of the Little Mermaid. Here is another painting by Ms. Lebrun that I also referred to.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPXqH0qXkGxEMf79CY_GvllHoc3RhHsMIHsw1sjwYppjJ4vwQyNjfVeDcrfvnCWjfhd036JhRIiv5Ions4f6tWR_J1z3pRRN9eyDClsp09tAhrOn5TYzSftCx5iHQQ6ZzsjOBL3sJjFeYy/s280/countess_kinsky_vigee_lebrun.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjppLTbLTxwNk8BCh54XF6hLUuCz-tG8N3PEv2nVaY6bEvCrtPdwAMQTkbUMS564ZidUqqnvozWS4q83USdOpppsiL0YUxxXkMR2fMcGyFb9WX2cg1zcC0uZoR9ILJM-utsLeCUVgWL_Q2g/s280/portrait_lady_vigee_lebrun.jpg)
This was mostly photoshop and a little painter...I'm not entirely pleased with the result, but it was a fun (and deliciously absurd) exercise.
wow! This turned out great! Awesome painting!
ReplyDeleteDamn! That turned out amazing. Really cool assignment and really awesome execution.
ReplyDeleteTBA, totally bad ass!
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