Master Copy Antonio Mancini

In this video I make an oil study of Antonio Mancini's painting Lost in Thought c. 1895. The paper I cut to 7x12" is made by Canson and has a canvas texture. I used synthetic and natural hair brushes. Colors used: Titanium white mixed with Lead white, Cad Yellow light, Yellow ochre, Burnt Sienna, Cad red light & medium, Alizarin crimson, Raw umber, Cassel earth, Cobalt blue and Cobalt teal. Medium is linseed oil. If you enjoyed this video and want to support my channel please like and or subscribe. Thanks for watching!

[@samanthaarton-powell7057]

Love this! Love the way it was executed and the colours. Encouraging to just go for it and keep going.

[@philiphoweartistwriter272]

Impressive! Mancini worked larger, of course, but you were able to get the essence of the piece accurately with some nice color. Those canvas sheets are smooth with little tooth. Having seen a few of Mancini's originals, I know he created a much rougher surface. This painting is 39x23.6". Like all of his work, the final surface has a matte finish, which tells me he more likely blocked in with heavier paint, going for big shapes first then working into that. He was friends with Sargent and Boldini, among others, who surely influenced him. After his first layer dried, he would drag bristles with less impasto over the rough surface, which is evident in many of his faces and cloth where the highlights are hit with fresh paint, but the lower areas are left untouched, usually leaving a darker underpainting. My guess is he used turps to lay in the final thinner color because of the matte finish and to thin the paint enough to drag delicate strokes. (drag over a dry surface, not paint wet into wet). In a book I have on Mancini, photos show him using a special grid device made of strings, one in front of his canvas, and an identical one placed in front of his model with a matching string grid -sight size with a bit more accuracy. He would pull back the strings then release them to slap against the heavy wet layer(s) of paint, giving him something like guidelines to keep his drawing accurate. Odd, but I guess it worked for him. In this piece I doubt he used the device. Its pretty evident in larger works, where obvious lines or blocks can be seen. I'm going to check out your other demos, thanks for sharing!

[@Kriby-is-a-man]

Its a mancini

[@randomartist7980]

Wow this is incredible! Massive fan of Mancini and Fechin and I discovered Mancini through decline style. Their portraits and color and eyes both are incredible. Even their abstraction too. Great job!

[@jamlane]

Hmmm...I need to look up decline style. Thanks.

[@riskzerobeatz]

Great!!!😉

[@JapanJimmy]

Seen this a few times, thank you so much to learn from, cracking video

[@JapanJimmy]

Amazing painting given the dimensions of the canvas. Thank you for the pencil technique can see me using that in the future. Much appreciated.

[@verydrunkcat]

Great attempt, trying to do this wet into wet seems pretty tricky.. I feel like so much of it was scumbled on dry, what do you think? I keep putting off trying my hand at one of his since I'm not sure what would be a good approach.

[@olddirtymasters]

Thank you, I agree that he probably scumbled a lot. Some of the last touches I did were over dry paint and I saw the effect right away. Hope yours goes well when you get around to it.

[@hannomazzurana9809]

Beautiful awesome!

[@Bradwelbornfineart]

Fantastic 🙌

[@nanli8136]

Amazing

[@mansurimobile5017]

First sir

[@eresunmilagro]

Like!😮