Here is my current painting as it looked on August 17th. This painting is for the upcoming show at Porter Mill show with the theme of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. This will become part of a little unplanned series I have going of paintings related to lliterature (so far "Moby Dick", "Alice in Wonderland", "Scarlet Letter" and a "Midsummer Night's Dream" so far.)
For the show on Homer, I am painting a representation of the shield of Achilles inscribed with the opening line of the Iliad, e, 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 roughed in the lettering, so on August 17, I put some pale yellow as a background for the text. This is just an undercoat for the area that I hope will look golden when I am finished. And my plan is to have gray areas are going to look like silver when this is finished
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