Big Bang Artwork: To Every Thing There Is a Season

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Title: To Every Thing There Is a Season
Artist: i_autumnheart
Artist's Notes: I have made two paintings as illustrations for "To everything there is a Season" by Elizabeth Culmer. Both rated G, non-spoilery for any other story (as far as I know) and the medium is gouache on paper.

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Ilgamuth Tarkaan by i_autumnheart


Escape from Had Ordjah by i_autumnheart

Comments

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

So I have not read the story yet, but these are just beautiful. I love the relationship btween Ilgamuth and his horse and the colors and the sense of stylized action. These are terrific and I am just certain that they are perfect for the story to come. They are so vivid and seem so very perfect to a particular era. I know nothing of art but I do love these very much for what they evoke of Calormen.

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks - the style for the Escape is loosely based on the art of the Mughal Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_painting)in India, which edenfalling has said is a part of her inspiration for Calormene as well. It has a fabulous mix of Persian, Hindu, Chinese and even Mediterranean influences, and a much greater emphasis on portraiture than most Islamic styles. The colour-saturation in these two images is rather more from the western tradition of illumination, partly because that's my usual style, and partly because those are all the pigments I had on hand.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Oh I do so those influences! Really just a stunning job with the style and the color. You have done a wonderful job.