Here is my "Homer" painting as it looked on Sept 14, 2025. I was painting this for a Porter Mill event, paintings inspired by the Iliad and the Odyssey. So this painting will become part of a series of literary-themed paintings. The series was unplanned; it came about because I participated in a number of shows with literary themes: "Moby Dick", "Alice in Wonderland", "Scarlet Letter" and a "Midsummer Night's Dream," and now Homer's "Iliad".
This painting represents the shield of Achilles, inscribed with the opening line of Homer's "Iliad," 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."
Two weeks had passed since I last worked on this, and so it might look like progress is slow. But I reworked the lines of the circle and the spiral, and put another coat of gold on the shield. Stopping to re-checking and correcting the geometry is not fun, but it is necessary. To be continued. . .
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