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Hi Zoran. This painting is one of your best. Bravo!

Yes, they all are the original size.

Lady standing at a Virginal (copy) L Before and After Painting procedure And another one: "The Geographer"

Thanks everyone for their comments, ,

This is the latest. "The Music Lesson" , Oil on canvas 65,5 x 75 cm Detail: Since my version of Vermeer s "Girl with a Pearl Earring" was flawed, I reworked the painting. This is the new, I think, improved version. Whenever I post photos the colors, contrasts and depth, caused by the...

"The Concert" was stolen from the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990, and is still missing. The copy (which is more like a reconstruction, because a lot of Vermeer's original paint layers have disappeared, aged, yellowed or deteriorated) Oil on canvas 26,5 x 30 in. and Vermeer 's...

Thanks everyone for the comments, but life goes fast and in the meantime, I've made two other ones. This is "The Lacemaker", a small one (8.6 x 10 in). and this one: "The Guitar Player" - 18.4 x 21.5 in These two original paintings (esp. The Lacemaker) are used, and have a yellowish...

"The Astronomer" Oil on Canvas 45 x 51 cm The original painting by Vermeer (at the Louvre in Paris) looks yellow and brown. When copying it, I tried to eliminate this brown layer. Maybe not enough, maybe too much. I could only guess. Contrary to popular belief, copying a painting requires...

I am preparing the canvas with another extra 3 layers of gesso and it is glued on Dibond.. The oilpaints are tube paints (Schmincke/Williamsburg). The underpainting is very thinly applied with a mixture of gesso and acrylic paint (Golden).

A milkmaid was someone who came around with milk to the people, back in those days. You are right, what you see on the painting was more of a kitchen maid, rather than a milk maid. The woman is making a meal with bread and milk. She will not drink the milk from the bowl, neither will the cat...

Here's another one. "The Milkmaid" , Oil on canvas 46 x 42 cm (18,7 x 17,1 in)

Thanks. For the blue cloth I used a mixture of Ultramarine and Phtalo blue (and white in the underlayers). Also thanks to Johnem, CaliAnn and ErikRak

Nice start!

Thanks to everyone for their comments.

Thanks. The background color: over the layer of umber, i applied 2-3 layers of pure ivory black.