Friday, March 22, 2013

755 - "Ceres & Bacchus"


The Roman gods Ceres and Bacchus:  I had started with a vague sketch of Bacchus and through some hard work and adjustments in Photoshop, I have a finished piece.  In particular I used Photohop to reposition Ceres so that she wasn't leaning over too far, and I rebalanced the colour palette and added the effect of a tiled mosaic. 
 
The background artwork is based on an ancient Classical design as described by Owen Jones in his trend-setting book "The Grammar Of Ornament".