Le Roi est Mort. Vive le Roi!
Lazy post copypasted from DA, once more.
The Emperor of the United States
[copy+paste]Norton I, née Joshua A. Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, Saint Second Class of Discordianism.
Made for a course in cultural and style history, where the examination included making a portrait of a historical character according to the rules of some specific art style. Since Norton is a Discordian saint 2nd class, Byzantine icon painting seemed like an appropriate choice.
If you wish to find out more about His Imperial Majesty, you can read more here, here or in Sandman issue #31, Three Septembers and a January.
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Acrylics and enamel on wood, ~32 x 23 centimetres.[copy+paste]
Imperial walking stick
[copy+paste]A walking stick for an emperor. Just a pity that the intended recipient has been dead for some 130 years... Oh well, that's life -- or, er, death -- for ya. :P
As another part of the culture/style history examination for which I made this portrait, we were to make an artifact that could have belonged to the historical character we'd chosen -- in my case Norton I, née Joshua A. Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. Now, one of the few things found in Norton's boarding house room after his death was a collection of walking sticks, so I figured -- what if someone had made a walking cane especially for him? Perhaps a gift from some well-off person with a fondness for the Emperor, or an artisan who wanted the bragging right of having made some of the imperial regalia of America. And there were plenty of sailors in San Francisco, so there should have been people around with some skill in the fanciful shaping of bone and horn...
Anyway, this is what I came up with. I do wish I could have spent more time on getting everything right, but time has been quite scarce lately. Also, I hope to get some better photographs at some point -- the colours in these are quite borked; way too yellow -- but I figure it is better to post something now than to wait until I may have forgotten all about this thing...
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Wood, sculpey and fimo, mostly. ~94 cm tall.[copy+paste]
The examination also included a moodboard for the historical character's room, and a few written essays. I shall spare you those, though.
It is stupidly cold here (around -27 °C now, not counting windchill), something which I am really very awfully irascibly tired of. Today, one of my classmates (Maja) broke a bottle worth 350 kronor over the head of another classmate (Linnea). Tomorrow or the day after that, I might get shot, or maybe somebody else from the class will be. I would quite like to try it, but I suspect I'm not the only one.
But first, sleep.
The Emperor of the United States
[copy+paste]Norton I, née Joshua A. Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, Saint Second Class of Discordianism.
Made for a course in cultural and style history, where the examination included making a portrait of a historical character according to the rules of some specific art style. Since Norton is a Discordian saint 2nd class, Byzantine icon painting seemed like an appropriate choice.
If you wish to find out more about His Imperial Majesty, you can read more here, here or in Sandman issue #31, Three Septembers and a January.
~
Acrylics and enamel on wood, ~32 x 23 centimetres.[copy+paste]
Imperial walking stick
[copy+paste]A walking stick for an emperor. Just a pity that the intended recipient has been dead for some 130 years... Oh well, that's life -- or, er, death -- for ya. :P
As another part of the culture/style history examination for which I made this portrait, we were to make an artifact that could have belonged to the historical character we'd chosen -- in my case Norton I, née Joshua A. Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. Now, one of the few things found in Norton's boarding house room after his death was a collection of walking sticks, so I figured -- what if someone had made a walking cane especially for him? Perhaps a gift from some well-off person with a fondness for the Emperor, or an artisan who wanted the bragging right of having made some of the imperial regalia of America. And there were plenty of sailors in San Francisco, so there should have been people around with some skill in the fanciful shaping of bone and horn...
Anyway, this is what I came up with. I do wish I could have spent more time on getting everything right, but time has been quite scarce lately. Also, I hope to get some better photographs at some point -- the colours in these are quite borked; way too yellow -- but I figure it is better to post something now than to wait until I may have forgotten all about this thing...
~
Wood, sculpey and fimo, mostly. ~94 cm tall.[copy+paste]
The examination also included a moodboard for the historical character's room, and a few written essays. I shall spare you those, though.
It is stupidly cold here (around -27 °C now, not counting windchill), something which I am really very awfully irascibly tired of. Today, one of my classmates (Maja) broke a bottle worth 350 kronor over the head of another classmate (Linnea). Tomorrow or the day after that, I might get shot, or maybe somebody else from the class will be. I would quite like to try it, but I suspect I'm not the only one.
But first, sleep.