Ignorant King Duncan
Conned on April 23, 2007
INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF!
An Acrylic painting on canvas inspired by the Shakespearian play Macbeth. Personal interpretation of King Duncan walking through his gardens ignorant of all the death symbolism surrounding him (the crows).
The crow is animal symbolism of death, it is also a technique used to forshadow Duncan's death and is mentioned by Lady Macbeth.
This is the first piece which I used the swurling of the paint to indicate movement and the different types of blues in the sky add to the painting's vibrant look.
The message (so to speak) that I'm bringing across is that Duncan is ignorant of Macbeth's plot against him, the crows represent the dramatic irony as the audience knows and he doesn't.
I love the way this piece turned out :) This is also part of a 2 piece series but I don't have a picture of it so next update will be of another series inspired by a book called Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel.
Ersatz at 5:23PM, April 27, 2007
Clever Conned. Silly silly Duncan.
sweetninja566 at 4:51PM, April 24, 2007
OOOOO she looks cool! can I possibly use this for one of the backround hung up photos in my comic!? I will give you full credit and link your comic. It wont be for a while but it would be really cool to have something other than stuff i drew or got of google.
slimredninja at 3:46PM, April 24, 2007
really nice painting i got tons of friends who work for meadowbrook theater and they just got done doing macbeth which they all call that play that shall not be named for some supersitous reason
Tim the Enchanter at 12:24PM, April 24, 2007
ya know I played Macbeth himself a few months ago AND I read Jonathan strange & Mr. Norrell... well, actually I only got to page 400 or so because the writing style was too much for me t handle at the moment. So I only know about the church and the statues and that elf dude and the little zombie girl and stuff... Anyway, here's for good luck on your future work ;)