An abbreviated breakdown of how the shiny sketch cards for the Mythology set were painted.
Work in progress: Arachne and Perseus
All posts tagged MYTHOLOGY
Classic Mythology I – stages of work
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 13, February, 2012
https://bohemianweasel.com/2012/02/13/classic-mythology-i-stages-of-work/
Classic Mythology I – Isis
Mixed media on canvas, approx 24×29 cms – painted as a basecard for the PernaStudios ‘Classic Mythology’ trading card set.
Isis, Mother of Egypt
The work in progress:
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Friday 13, January, 2012
https://bohemianweasel.com/2012/01/13/pernastudios-classic-mythology-i-isis/
Classic Mythology I – Loki
Mixed media on canvas, approx 24×29 cms – painted as a basecard for the PernaStudios ‘Classic Mythology’ trading card set.
‘The Punishment of Loki’:
Far beneath the living world they bound him to the sharpest rocks with the ‘cold intestines of his dead son’. A monstrous serpent was set guard above him, its mouth perpetually dripping a terrible venom. Throughout his incarceration Loki’s wife bore a bowl above him to catch the venom, hoping to spare her husband the agony its touch would cause, but after a time the bowl would fill up. Then she was forced to turn away to empty its dreadful contents, and in those moments the venom would reach Loki’s skin. His pain was so great that his writhing moved the bones of the world and caused earthquakes throughout the lands above.
The Punishment of Loki
Loki closeup
serpent scales closeup
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Sunday 13, November, 2011
https://bohemianweasel.com/2011/11/13/classic-mythology-i-loki/
Legends & Lore
For the Legends & Lore set I decided to go a little retro, i.e. Ancient Greece & Egypt. So for your delectation I present a honey-wrapped sliver of Ancient Egyptian-ness when statement jewellery was BIG, and a plethora of Greek stars from a time when humans were muscly and Gods were nutjobs.
So get some wine, peel some grapes, and command your minstrel to strum his lyre while you daydream across the wine-dark sea.
Apollo
Bacchus/Dionysus
Icarus
Eros (Cupid), shoots people for love
Persephone, Hades’ supposedly reluctant wife. (A kingdom AND a lifetime supply of pomegranates sounds good to me.)
Hades and Cerberus
Orpheus
Hecate, goddess of witchcraft.
Narcissus
Odysseus, tied to the mast of his ship. (And Sirens WITH WINGS)
Pandora with her jar
Harpy (Aello) ‘one who snatches’.
Medusa the beautiful
Minotaur
Bast /Bastet and cat
Isis, mother of Egypt
Cleopatra and asp.
Ramses
Triton – a ‘sea-hued’ merman with barnacled shoulders. It’s an Old Greek Old Gregg.
The ‘Apotheosis’, when Zeus finally said ‘Oh ALRIGHT Heracles, you can come in as well.’
Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Monday 20, July, 2009
https://bohemianweasel.com/2009/07/20/legends-lore/
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