“Miss Demeanor” (2025). Louis Cooper. Oil on canvas. 36″x24″ A rather impatient “sketch in oil” of Susan. Impressionistic dress and hair. Not enough attention to detail in facial expression. I think the initial drawing was better than the painting. Glazes applied quickly and without giving enough attention to preserving the detail or...
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“Susan” (2025). Louis Cooper. Oil on canvas. 36″x24″ A portrait of Susan, inspired by John Singer Sargent’s detailed facial work and more abstract impressionist clothing and surroundings. “Susan” (2025). Louis Cooper. Oil on canvas. 36″x24″
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“Susan” (2025). Louis Cooper. Oil on canvas. 36″x24″ Continuing to experiment with generative AI, but this time using image prompts of street art that I liked, combined with a face swap of Susan’s likeness. Generated a composition that I am unaccustomed to painting. I’m not sure I’m much of an abstract artist, and I’m not...
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“Susan” (after recently discovered Klimt) (2025). Louis Cooper. Oil on canvas. 36″x24″ A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, that was believed lost for 100 years, has been found in Vienna. A Portrait of Fraulein Lieser once belonged to a Jewish family in Austria and was last seen in public in 1925. Its fate after that is unclear but the...
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“Self Portrait” (after Rembrandt self-portrait dated 1690) (2025). Louis Cooper. Oil on canvas. 24″x24″ Self-portrait modeled after Rembrandt’s 1690 self-portrait that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. He is credited with an unsparing depiction of the signs of aging in his own face, building up the paint in high relief to...
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“Susan with Rock” (2025). Louis Cooper. Oil on canvas. 24″x24″ AI inspired composition using Midjourney and prompt “A painting in the style of American primitive portraitist Ammi Phillips of a middle aged blond woman, dressed in 19th century garb, holding a rock in both hands, pastoral background reminiscent of an Andrew Wyeth scene.”...
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