been thinking about this painting since yesterday and remembered when Bruno Dumont said that some paintings are not what they seem. they’re something spiritual and there’s no other way to represent that spiritual landscape than to paint trees
When I design historical figures, I'm less interested in asking, "What did they look like?" and more interested in asking, "What did they mean?" I treat each one as the personification of their reign, shaping their design around the events, symbols, and stories associates with em