COPIES OF OIL PAINTINGS
For my oil painting copies on canvas, I always prepare my own painting support using high-quality linen canvas, which I stretch onto wooden stretchers and secure with nails.
I also create my own ground layer, an emulsion made from natural rabbit glue, chalk, linseed oil, and dammar resin. When painting, I use either high-quality ready-made oil paints or handmade paints, which I prepare by mixing pigments with linseed oil. As a binder, I use a combination of linseed oil and dammar resin.
My painting process begins with an underdrawing, followed by a monochromatic underpainting, before proceeding with full-color application.
Copy of a fragment of "At the Well" by Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1888). Painted from the original at Sukiennice Museum, Cracow 2017.
Copy of "A road near the stream" by Wojciech Gerson (1854). Painted from a photograph, 53x64cm, 2017.
Copy of "A road near the stream" by Wojciech Gerson, fragment.
Copy of "A road near the stream" by Wojciech Gerson, fragment.
Copy of "Tatra landscape" by Eligiusz Niewiadomski, beginning of XXth century. Painted from a photograph, 65x42cm (reduced in size compared to the original) 2020.
Copy of "The Milkmaid" by Johannes Vermeer (1657-58). Painted from a photograph, 45,5x41cm, 2016.
Copy of "The Lacemaker" by Johannes Vermeer (1669-70). Painted from a photograph, 24,5x21cm, 2016.
Copy of "The Storm" by Jozef Chelmonski" - painted from a photograph during my work for "The Peasants" movie as a part of the training. It was a quickly done painting on a HDF panel without using the old techniques. 2021.
Still life painted in style and technique of XVIIth century Dutch masters (not a copy of an actual painting), 2015.