Saturday, January 17, 2009

I am working on the same image(s) as before but doing different versions. These Karyatid figures taken from the Erechtheion in Athens is the basis of this project. Shown here is a corner of my studio where two of the figures, - each panel is four feet (120 cm) tall, - have been drawn as a full-size mock-up of the proposed paintings.
However, once I had done this I thought they could very easily stand as finished works in their own right. So from there I made the other two to make up the set of four.


They are pictured here as they are on the studio wall. The parallax error has not been corrected with photoshop. The heads are portraits of people I know, one of them is a self portrait sans beard. I'll let you guess which one. You may need to click on the picture for an enlarged image. The other missing items are the capitals of the pillars that were an integral part of the structure/sculptures in the Erechtheion. I wantto show the figures purely and simply.

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