On August 15th, I got underway with my painting for the upcoming Porter Mill show with the theme of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. This is part of a little series I have going of paintings related to literary works (on "Moby Dick", "Alice in Wonderland", "Scarlet Letter" and a "Midsummer Night's Dream" so far.)
For the Homer show, I decided to paint he shield of Achilles inscribed with a quotation from the Iliad, the opening line, as translated by Robert Fagles.:
"Rage -- Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaens countless losses hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls."
I had already laid out the text in pencil on canvas, so on August 15th, I went over the lettering with brown Sharpie marker, followed by brush work with paint. This is still rough, but my goal was to work out placement of the text, which is actually part of the composition.
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