Re:Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
by shmerl on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @06:38PM
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While the theory works fine for static objects, how can it work for people? Did they have to precisely repeat their position while posing? Wouldn't it ruin the copying aspect?
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Re:Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
by ecubed on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @10:29PM
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He's using mannequins in the main picture at the top of the article, so I assume one technique would be to use mannequins as placeholders until you needed to do the distinctly human parts of the painting (hands, faces), then you could substitute a person into place and paint that part.