Today I would like to give you another closer look at one of my large oil paintings. It was done for a group show and the theme was "Dragon". Of course, I didn't want to just paint a traditional dragon, like we usually imagine it...
To give shape to the idea, I started wondering, what is typical for a (western) dragon. It can fly and spits fire, right?
Since I like mechanics and steampunk, I finally decided, to make my dragon a kind of mechanical monster, with a mouth like a jet engine.
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Now, since my dragon is a sort of flying machine, it needed a pilot. I figured, why not have a kind of amazon steer the "vehicle". In addition to some rein like steering mechanism, she is wearing shoes, which also operate as fins.
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In the lower area of the painted frame, one can see a "blue print" of the whole setup.
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The original is a painting on board in acrylics, egg tempera and oil.
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All photos/scans by me of my own artwork done in my special technique as introduced in What is Hinterglas?
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