Original Art: View over Avignon

[honorat]

by Honorat

Summary: My very own Art! A medieval princess looks out from her tower over a vineyard and a river to a fortress. I took the photos that I referenced for the architectural details. Avignon just inspires art for me.

Comments

[geekmama]

Great detail on that, so ordered and beautiful. Love the reflections in the water, the gargoyle, the princess's gown.

(16 almost done, finally! *goes back to work*)

[honorat]

Thank you so much. Part of the fun of art is that I can make the universe whatever I want it to be--see my comment below to evilmissbecky! The reflections and the gown I can take credit for, but the gargoyle is his own funny little self from the Middle Ages. He's a cute drainspout.

[hms_dauntless]

Simply amazing !
*in awe of your many talents*

[I did not forget the caps of Barbossa and the other characters you asked ! It's just that I've been RL "harassed", recently. ;)]

[honorat]

Thank you so very much. Don't stress over the caps! I'm currently working on a lovely portrait of Cotton and Parrot. David Bailie has such a wonderful face. I'm sorry RL has been a pain, and I'm immensely grateful for the caps you've already given me.

[evilmissbecky]

I'm always so happy to see another art post by you! I love the attention to detail here, and your command of perspective. Looking at this makes me want to go to Avignon too, just so I can say, "I recognize this view!" :-)

[honorat]

Thank you so much. I am a detail-slave. The perspective is actually mine rather than a photograph's :D You would recognize parts of this view in Avignon--the fortress is Avignon Villenueve and part of the bridge is Pont Benezet and the vinyard is correct. But it would take three different stops to see them--I compressed things a bit and finished the bridge which has been broken since about the fifteenth century. Also I removed the more modern town on both sides of the river Rhone and replaced a rather stiff looking statue with that gorgeously active anachronistic baroque one from the top of the Castel San Angelo in Rome. So things are a bit mixed up here. :D But it still has the feel of Avignon--imagine the stone is a sun-warmed golden and the sky is the most impossibly blue blue of all. I was told the skies of Provence were a different blue than anywhere else in the world, but I thought that was metaphorical until I was there. Stunning. Amost a paler royal blue.

[hendercats]

Lovely, lovely! The switchbacks in the road, the balcony supports, (as geek_mama_2 said) the gargoyle. *sigh* I'd like to dance around that courtyard in the moonlight.

[honorat]

The real fun of this is that my model for this tower was the Papal Palace! *Snerk* They'd have looked at you funny! Possibly drowned you soon after! I'm glad you liked this. I did love those little gargoyles.

[hereswith]

Oh, that's lovely, and I recognise some the details from the city walls :-) I especially like the foliage and the large window here, both look real enough to touch. And the little gargoyle!

[honorat]

Thank you very much. I'm glad there is a recognizable Avignon flavour to this. I certainly took a great many liberties with the placement of buildings and walls, and I conveniently removed the modern town. That window came from St. Denis outside of Paris. I just liked it and wanted to draw it. The gargoyles on the Palais de Papes were so cute that I had to add one of those, too. I'm glad you like him.