what technique was used in ths painting?

Question

I saw this painting in a gallery, and want to try this on my next canvas...

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=82a1bc916d&realattid=f_f9hbmrqu0&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=1167dea3035d9ada

Answer 1

Your link is only an advertisement for Google G-Mail. If you actually have an image you want us to look out try using a real image source like Flickr or Live Journal or even Yahoo Briefcase. Or you can provide the actual direct link to the image itself.

Answer 2

Sorry, I can't see the painting you are referring to, I'm new to this site, and don't know its ins and outs yet.
Who is the artist?
For techniques, look in Ralph Meyer's book, the Artist's Handbook or the book by Reed Kay (I think it's called A Studio Guide.....)
If you know who the artist is, you can find out what technique they generally used.
I'm not sure I remember the movie, the Thomas Crown Affair. Was the painting a Rubens or a Renoir? I've forgotten.
Try searching the artist's name with the work "technique" after it.
Also, go to some of the websites of the various known companies that make artist's paints, like Winsor Newton, Gamblin, Holbein, etc. Some websites have pages on methods and materials.
Also, there are many on-line references, and videos. Once you know the artist, the technique, then you can search techniques, such as "Painting--Glaze technique" or "Scumbling" or the like.
I assume the "artist" used oils. The books listed above are a good choice for researching Oil painting techniques. But Dover books also publishes many very much older texts on Old Master Techniques.
Copying is a fast-track to learning how to paint. If you research what it is you are copying, and actually go and look at paintings in the Museums and Galleries and really look at how the paint was layered onto the canvas. You can even tell if the day, for the artist, was warm or cold by the way the paint looks.
The canvas is also important, and how it was primed. So is the brush you use, sable, badger or bristle? The medium--the way you mix the paint-thinning and sustaining medium is also important. If you really want to get in-depth about it. Pigments, too are important. Modern pigments are very different from colors available as late as a hundred years ago.

Answer 3

Hitting google search I guess?

Answer 4

WHERE IS THE PIC