Really excited to have finished my first Persian miniature which ... isn't exactly very Persian ! 😂
I do have a Timurid pair that is at the colour-blocking stage, but because they have a gold background, I wanted to practice rendering and outlining on something a little less precious first.
I'd love feedback, particularly on rendering and outlining (is it too dark?)
… “Hmm… just a bit more rouge”
2023
Among my textile art explorations: knotted needle lace scrolls... positive and negative spaces, word and breath.
Hello!
The academic year has finished so I finally have a chance to post an update here, it's good to be back and to be able to catch up with everyone :)
Here are a couple of paintings I completed for @Vaishali Prazmari's Student exhibition last December, the first one I began in a class in November 2022, whilst I started painting Kali in a Spring 2022 class, but only finished her in December. Fitting these in around essay deadlines helps me keep my painting practice up and compliments my thinking about art as an art historian in training! There are rough areas to be sorted out but overall I was delighted to finish them on time, and each represents an opportunity to experiment which I find really helpful.
I recently got this one into a miniature painting exhibition in London which I was very excited about! It is heavily…
Wow - I love this! It's so vibrant and energetic, all the swirling is so beautiful and powerful!
Thanks for posting Rosalind! It's hard to say about 'too dark' actually but here goes: for a miniature in the classical style, yes it could be a little dark. For a portrait, it maybe is only slightly too dark and they would have used more line nuance (cf. Reza Abbasi). However, I think you're trying to do something else entirely, doing a new thing which is mixing it with the Japanese print. In this case, it's just right, because printmaking has to be dark, doesn't it, for the lines to show up clearly. So in that sense you're in line with that aesthetic.
If you ask me, though, I'd like to see more pots and things on the shelves, as I'm nosy and like to poke around miniature shops like that ;-)
Look forward to seeing your other work!