Yesterday’s trip to The Fitz yielded beaucoup de inspiration, as such visits always do. This latest experiment is me riffing on a detail of Breughel’s Triumph of Death.
Most of this was done outside, in the garden. It’s gorgeous! The dappled light and shade where we’re sat – our ‘green room’ – makes for interesting effects on the sketch.
Seeing things slightly changed – in reflection, upside down, flipped, etc. – can, I find, be quite a useful thing.
I’m thinking of doing a piece called Dance of Death, with a circle of skulls and heads, in this series. This new piece, above right, was meant to be a study for the background. It’s a kind of skull/moon.
More moony-skull stuff…
LATER ON… 9/3/‘25
I’ve been working on other newer designs. Like the skull/moons, etc. but I’ve also been tweaking my Triumph of Death piece. Is it done now? Hard to say, for sure!
But, to my own surprise and delight, I like the trajectory it’s taken. I think there’s something here worth developing.