This is an illustration entitled 'March past of the kitchen utensils', and shows a scene from Aristophanes' play 'The Wasps'.
Vaughan Williams has also written a piece based on 'The Wasps', and one of the movements has the same title as my painting (though I have to admit he did it first!)
For anyone unfamiliar with the play, I really really recommend it - it's surreal and totally mad!
The characters at the bottom of my piece are the wasps themselves. They aren't insects, just jury members ...
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Lovely!!
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Thank you!
penelope
Hey, this is a great illustration. Haven't seen the play, but I am intrigued.
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that is beautiful. i love the texture and how soft it looks. did you do that with colored pencils?? great job!!
This is pretty darn awe inspiring. Did you do all the cross hatching and then color on top? It really is an amazing piece of work. You should be proud!
Thanks for your kind comments everyone! If anyone's interested, what I do is put the background colour down first and then the cross-hatching on top with watercolour. Using brushes which come to a very fine point!
Very neurotic, I know ...
This is a very cool feeling composition, I love the colours.
Great linework and design!
very nice; love the happy playful colors
Cool - that's a good interpretation of "play"! I think I studied the play long ago at high school...
This is a gorgeous illo!
as is this (surreal and totaly mad, that is)! fantastic!
What a beautiful image! You have a very personal style, I love it!
So beautifull,
Congratulations
hugs from brazil
absolutely inspired! i love this!!!
This is so beautifully done!
this is excellent cas...nice accompanying post too :)
Nice work!
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