Artist of the week
A face out of the dark
Rembrandt
Nearly all of these are people. Aristotle with his hand on Homer, Flora in her spring clothes, Hendrickje, Bellona in her armour, the painter Gerard de Lairesse, a man in a turban. The light finds a face and lets the rest go.
As a puzzle
The dark is the difficulty. Large parts of these are deep brown with almost nothing in them, and those pieces come down to shape rather than picture. Start low, build the lit face first, then work outward into the shadow.
A good size here: 50–200 pieces.
Also filed under Dutch Golden Age
Subjects here: PortraitsMyths and LegendsFlowersLandscapesEveryday LifeBooksSacred Art
7 pictures, pick one to build
