The last study from yesterday's blog entry was a darker somewhat monotone palette consistent with the subject matter of Hoarders and Spendthrifts in a subterranean Purgatory pushing bags of Accumulated Wealth up a hill in the moonlight.
Today's study brightens the color palette more consistent with the Impressionist legacy and selects still another position and posture from Gustave Dore's engraving for Dante's Inferno.
"Justice of God, ah! who heaps up so many; New toils and sufferings as I beheld?; And why doth our transgressions waste us so?" Dante's Inferno Canto VII, lines 19-21
Today's study brightens the color palette more consistent with the Impressionist legacy and selects still another position and posture from Gustave Dore's engraving for Dante's Inferno.
"Justice of God, ah! who heaps up so many; New toils and sufferings as I beheld?; And why doth our transgressions waste us so?" Dante's Inferno Canto VII, lines 19-21
Original Art: From Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
Wealth and Fortune - Heaps Up So Many - Study 04 Souvenir of Dore
Copyright James E. Martin 2012
I like the color value and shade-shape modeling of the money bag much better and may use a similar approach in the larger work. The original color values that I used in the larger work for the bags of wealth were much too dark even for a subterranean aura with reflected hellfire and lost a lot of feeling and impact so they were scraped down and left until I identified a better alternative in the studies. Not convinced yet of the body color values for the context.
It's taking a little longer in this Journey to get this Artist's hands to execute towards the Artist's vision in the head and the Artist's feeling in the heart. Getting it all in Alignment.
It's taking a little longer in this Journey to get this Artist's hands to execute towards the Artist's vision in the head and the Artist's feeling in the heart. Getting it all in Alignment.
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