Working (outside n the garden) on a new idea today. The idea derives from a combo of Breughel’s Triumph of Death, and a Cuban record cover!
This one is intended to make the Death part of the theme more my own (as a theme, not as wish for demise!), less pinched from Breughel/Picasso, etc.
Also, partly ‘in spirit’, via the Cuban music connection (and the whole Afro-Latin-American attitude to Death), it’s intended to bring in a more positive celebratory note, of sorts. If ya’ ken wor’ I mean?
The colours are coming out a bit sharp/acid*. Poss’ more so in the photos than in ‘real life’? And I’d quite like to work more on the positions/quantities/hues of the coloured ‘spots’, to make the overall composition sing a bit more.
Also, the little moon/skulls could conceivably have their little scroll like shrouds in attendance, also? Hmmm… plenty to think and work on. That’s all to the good, methinks.
*An ochre/earth colour is coming out bright orange, for example!
Well, the day is over. More or less. I’m in bed. Having slipped in the bath, and flooded the floor. Could’ve been much worse!
The Dance of Death design has progressed a bit more. And I like it better, for it. But it’s not quite there yet. Do I work more on this version? Or do another, and add/remove, change, and so on…
We shall see, I s’pose?