Disclaimer: It's now 3am, so I may vehemently disavow all text that follows at a later date.
Hey look I finished my "Re-imagined Masterpiece"! For this weeks topic I used Ingres: "La Grande Odalisque (1814)", but since this is the "Rust Belt Monster Collective" and not the "Stuffed Shirt Snooty Academic Collective" (i'm just kidding BFA peeps... chill) I drew a robot chick.
If I remember my Art History, Ingres was a pretty mainstream academic Neoclassicist in his day, a movement that looked to the past for its inspiration, so using one of his paintings to inspire a futuristic fantasy is pretty funny to me. But then again, the academic style of the time was to paint Nymphs and Satyrs fornicating (-my attempt at keeping my RBMC PG-13 ish...at least in the text), a theme that is pretty fantastical, so maybe i'm not that far off.
Hey If you want to see my process in making this
Mesmerizing. I really like your choice in laying the shadows across the body. Way more challenging than anything I would attempt now, but down the road I will probably steal it. Great work as always.
ReplyDeleteI knew it'd be worth the wait. And I was right. Great atmosphere, color. Yep.
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