Saturday, August 11, 2012

Still Life So Far -- 4: King and Queen

My genre of painting has become "populated still life." The painting has a whole different feeling once you get a little figure in there.

The king and queen are based on Isle of Lewis chess figures. I own a resin replica set which I use for my still life constructions. I visited the originals recently at the Cloisters. The queen's pose, with her head resting on her hand, is repeated in other queens found on the Isle of Lewis. I think of her as my stand-in.

1 comment:

  1. "populated still life."

    great name!lol

    so basically the major parts left to flesh out are the owl, lamp , shell...it's interesting they are on a line

    Love the dice glow!

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