For this new assortment, titled “Regal Symmetry”, I rounded up a forged of great characters, all of them with mysterious gazes, baronial stares, and haughty glances. Trying like they may very well be present in a secret hall or a cloistered walkway, each female and male “royals” are emblazoned with regal trappings and wisps of manuscripts.
For inspiration, I imagined a tower of mysterious leather-bound classic volumes stacked on an enormous carved library desk; every e book on a distinct matter. Alchemy, geometry, structure, video games and sorcery, botany, and so forth. I imagined the mythic books stuffed with engravings, falling open to any web page, and what I’d discover. Odd markings, measurements, tracings, and embossments seem all through this assortment, together with a variation on Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man”.
I’ve all the time needed to do my very own rendering of a mystical fortune telling hand, and this was my likelihood. At a look, it appears to be like archival, however truly it’s my very own model that features “discovered typography” from an outdated e book of spells, plus scratchy particulars of numerals and symbols. And – did I point out? – I used my very own hand for the define, since I needed this drawing to be completely my very own invention. A superb buddy of mine gifted me with a carved picket hand that has the sensation of the traditional fortune telling palms in outdated books; and you may see it right here, as a backdrop to my drawing. Kismet!
Video games typically replicate our fascination with royalty, together with the hierarchy of Kings, Queens, and different costumed figures. And units of hand-painted Tarot playing cards have been generally commissioned by the wealthiest-of-the-wealthy Renaissance-era artwork patrons.
I’ve seen precise historical Tarot playing cards at The Cloisters Museum in Manhattan, and they’re stunningly intricate and charismatic, with gold embossments. My “Queen” card shouldn’t be actually a Tarot card, however the two frontal faces of rival Queens recommend an advanced drama. And I re-invented a taking part in card with detailed costumes and heraldic touches that may be enjoyable to hand-color.
This new assortment is finished in my traditional “LP collage” fashion and is totally stuffed with countless layers, particulars and refinements. Theatricality prevails, and every picture tells a narrative.
Go forth, along with your regal pennants flying, and create one thing particular with this new assortment! As all the time, all my intricate collaged particulars are captured by the manufacturing wizardry of PaperArtsy; they usually have a complete vary of inventive merchandise accessible to maintain you creating, experimenting, and having fun with the journey.
Lynne Perrella is a combined media artist, product designer, writer of 5 books on mixed-media, and a workshop teacher.