Art: A Potter's Love
Although I already said it, go and check out the other art and stories for the FQF. (too lazy to make another link)
I am so incredibly happy to finally post these. I have much to say, so it'll fortunately be behind the lj-cut.
Title: A Potter's Love
Tools: acrylic, watercolor, and permanent marker
Time: Way too long
Challenge: HP/SS Dusk Till Dawn FQF
Rating: light R
Warnings: slash, artistic nudity, frottage
Preview:
I'm actually nervous about them being posted now because of how much time and effort I spent on them. Initially I planned to write a fic for the History Challenge, and researched like no tomorrow. I read easily 200+ pages on Ancient Greek sexuality, art, pederasty, culture, military practices, philosophy, you name it.
But after all that research, I couldn't think of a story to go along with my kickin' setting. So, I fell to my ever-ready backup plan, and decided to draw something. Luckily, I took Art History recently, and that along with my independent research exposed me to an array of homoerotic pottery from that time, and I knew that was what I wished to try.
I designed the layout and the pottery shape, but each of the figures, the tree, the building, and flower design were all "inspired" by other pieces of actual pottery. The cock was all my on making, however. ;)
And because the nerd in me couldn't resist, I even made an abstract for the piece like would be seen in a museum. Which is to be taken completely seriously.
Historical Notes:
Amphora with Eromenos and Erastes
Greece Attica Athens
about 480-460 B.C.
Height: 43.2 cm (16 15/16 in.)
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Ceramic, Red Figure
The piece found in the recently uncovered ruins in the outskirts of Athens has puzzled art historians and archaeologists alike with its uncommon and almost anachronistic style. While side A contains the accepted stance and posture of figures, specifically the standing eromenos or young lover, Side B is a depiction of Side A only moments later, much like modern cartoons, but with animalistic and disgusting frottage. This tasteless rendition and style of an erastes with his young eromenos, thankfully, has not been found elsewhere, and the find is quite the amphoric anomaly.
A clue to the identities of these two figures may be found in another recent discovery. One of Sophocles' lost plays tells the tale of an erastes, Sivekles, or Severus, who courts Apeios, or loosely translated, Harry, and after many trials, it is believed Harry accepts.
**Disclaimer* No actual historians or archaeologists were harmed in the making of this abstract, although all factual history has been glibly shot to hell*
Side A:
Side B:
I am so incredibly happy to finally post these. I have much to say, so it'll fortunately be behind the lj-cut.
Title: A Potter's Love
Tools: acrylic, watercolor, and permanent marker
Time: Way too long
Challenge: HP/SS Dusk Till Dawn FQF
Rating: light R
Warnings: slash, artistic nudity, frottage
Preview:
I'm actually nervous about them being posted now because of how much time and effort I spent on them. Initially I planned to write a fic for the History Challenge, and researched like no tomorrow. I read easily 200+ pages on Ancient Greek sexuality, art, pederasty, culture, military practices, philosophy, you name it.
But after all that research, I couldn't think of a story to go along with my kickin' setting. So, I fell to my ever-ready backup plan, and decided to draw something. Luckily, I took Art History recently, and that along with my independent research exposed me to an array of homoerotic pottery from that time, and I knew that was what I wished to try.
I designed the layout and the pottery shape, but each of the figures, the tree, the building, and flower design were all "inspired" by other pieces of actual pottery. The cock was all my on making, however. ;)
And because the nerd in me couldn't resist, I even made an abstract for the piece like would be seen in a museum. Which is to be taken completely seriously.
Historical Notes:
Amphora with Eromenos and Erastes
Greece Attica Athens
about 480-460 B.C.
Height: 43.2 cm (16 15/16 in.)
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Ceramic, Red Figure
The piece found in the recently uncovered ruins in the outskirts of Athens has puzzled art historians and archaeologists alike with its uncommon and almost anachronistic style. While side A contains the accepted stance and posture of figures, specifically the standing eromenos or young lover, Side B is a depiction of Side A only moments later, much like modern cartoons, but with animalistic and disgusting frottage. This tasteless rendition and style of an erastes with his young eromenos, thankfully, has not been found elsewhere, and the find is quite the amphoric anomaly.
A clue to the identities of these two figures may be found in another recent discovery. One of Sophocles' lost plays tells the tale of an erastes, Sivekles, or Severus, who courts Apeios, or loosely translated, Harry, and after many trials, it is believed Harry accepts.
**Disclaimer* No actual historians or archaeologists were harmed in the making of this abstract, although all factual history has been glibly shot to hell*
Side A:
Side B: