2 Portraits

No visible signature. The style looks familiar. Can't tell for sure if trained artist or not.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

 

artist.......in training..!

 

Good call Komo! Exactly!

Kardinal, whenever an artist "hides" the hands - it's because they are unable to render them.

 

Possibly trained, just not in art.

 

Thanks for the replies.
I know that sometimes you can tell by the hands if an artist is trained or not but at the same time there are many modernist/impressionist artworks by famous artists that have hands
that look like done by a child.
Those pices look more like studies to me. Really, how do you tell the skills of the artist in these examples? I believe he or she chose a more loose, sketchy like style rather than tried to draw a realistic looking figures that turned into a mess.

 

OMG, that's so true!
I hadn't realized that!
I also just noticed that I go out of my way to ensure hands as appropriate in my murals (looking back at the ones I've posted here demonstrates that to me) because it IS a temptation to hide them... they ARE hard to do! Thanks, Anti, that's a realization, something to look for in future pieces.

 

You're most welcome Gila!
Your murals are beautiful.
You have much skill as an artist.

 

I've always been an artist, perhaps I have a trained eye? I have spent countless hours sketching from live models. In your examples, the loose, sketchy lines are not nearly drawn well enough to be called an artist's "style".

 

The frames look nice. I'd have trash picked them for the frames in my younger years.

 

Thanks, Anti.
That was a new insight for me. Middle-aged dogs CAN learn new tricks!

 

It appears they were both done by the same person.

 

There I do agree. Same artist.
I also will say that there is something I like... something about the broad strokes and off-handedness (pun not intended, although noted) and the postures and faces have a casual liveliness to them.

 

Maybe you do have a trained eye I just can't tell if everything is done in a way the artist wanted it or there is a lack of enough training.
Well, you know the drill, step two is taking them out of the frame to see if something is hiding there.
There is something that I like about them. And things that I don't like as well.

 

No signatures on the paintings. Both has "Kreisman", one on the back of the frame, the other on the mats.

Bought the pieces in VA Beach. If the artist is local, I found Esther "Esta" Kreisman who seems to be an artist but no images of her work neither detailed info. I may ask her on FB.
Or maybe Kreisman is the person who framed or owned the pieces.