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Next of Kin

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Next of Kin
oil on board

Read about the process of creating this painting here.

Naive

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Naive
oil on linen

Thunder By Evening

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Thunder By Evening
oil on linen

View the first stages of this painting here.

Oil Painting After Toulouse-Lautrec's Romain Coolus

© Lalla Porter. All rights reserved.

oil on linen

Toulouse-Lautrec's loose lines of oil on cardboard flow like ink. I chose linen for my painting and embraced it's beautiful texture over the slick surface Lautrec played with. I learned to do studies after The Masters at classical atelier schools. The chance to get inside a great artiist's head is intoxicating. The practice has an illustrious history and was not limited to academic painters. Vincent Van Gogh -- and the paintings he did after other artists such at Millet and Rembrandt -- taught me how rejuevenating it is to spend time in the light and shadows of historic studios.

Edit:
When I posted my study of Toulouse Lautrec, I didn't expect to have daily google searches for the actual painting. I went back to the library to get the book that contained the painting to humbly share it with researchers who arrive at my site.

Please consider: I did not push my work to be an exact copy of the original painting, but to learn from the master, and I drew mine freehand in oils with a brush. I assure you that is a challenge, as every mis-step of accuracy shows... and Toulouse-Lautrec was a MASTER of the loose oil sketch.

The original painting:
Romain Coolus

Toulouse-Lautrec 1899
oil on cardboard 56.2cm x 36.8cm
Monogram in blue paint lower left.
Musee Toulouse-Lautrec

Romain Coolus's real name was Rene Weill (1868 - 1952)

The painting is in the excellent, out of print, book: Toulouse-Lautrec by Gotz Adriani Published by Thames and Hudson 1986. The book was published for a major retrospective in West Germany. English translation 1987