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DAMN THE THUMBNAIL, IT'S TOO LARGE.
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Assignment: Create a themed piece of artwork based on your literary passage of choice.

I based mine off of a quote from The Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth:

"In those other lands the name of the Hero of Solferino meant nothing. They too had monarchs. And these monarchs had their own rescuers. Following such trains of thought was highly confusing; for a lieutenant in the monarchy it was confusing as when people like us imagine that the world is only one heavenly body among millions upon millions, that there are countless suns in the Milky Way, each one with its own planets, and that you yourself are a very worthless individual -- if not, to put it quite grossly, a pile of crap. "

Note that I based it on the idea, not the book.

This painting was done on a 6ft x 2ft wooden board. The columns on the bottom are strips of cheesecloth stuck onto the board with acrylic paint. For the bluish-black background, I used those flakey water-based housepaints that you see in buckets. Most of the details, however, are painted in oils and oil pastels. With the board standing as tall as myself, this is by far my biggest actual painting (yeah, still need to pack some experience under my belt).

Pardon the quality of the digital photography - it's hard to even get a none-foreshortened shot of it!

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Description
DAMN THE THUMBNAIL, IT'S TOO LARGE.
ZOOM IN FOR A PROPER VIEW.

Assignment: Create a themed piece of artwork based on your literary passage of choice.

I based mine off of a quote from The Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth:

"In those other lands the name of the Hero of Solferino meant nothing. They too had monarchs. And these monarchs had their own rescuers. Following such trains of thought was highly confusing; for a lieutenant in the monarchy it was confusing as when people like us imagine that the world is only one heavenly body among millions upon millions, that there are countless suns in the Milky Way, each one with its own planets, and that you yourself are a very worthless individual -- if not, to put it quite grossly, a pile of crap. "

Note that I based it on the idea, not the book.

This painting was done on a 6ft x 2ft wooden board. The columns on the bottom are strips of cheesecloth stuck onto the board with acrylic paint. For the bluish-black background, I used those flakey water-based housepaints that you see in buckets. Most of the details, however, are painted in oils and oil pastels. With the board standing as tall as myself, this is by far my biggest actual painting (yeah, still need to pack some experience under my belt).

Pardon the quality of the digital photography - it's hard to even get a none-foreshortened shot of it!

: p