Apotheosis | Outstagram


Colourful but unfinished digital drawing.
Detail. Based on a painting by Rubens. Originally posted on Instagram.

Started this about three years ago, tbh, and still not finished but I like the colours. Here’s another detail from the larger picture (which you’ll find below):



Why do I like the idea of an Apotheosis? I think it has something to do with it being so utterly unfamiliar to the times we live in, in the UK anyway.

Here’s the whole (but unfinished) picture:



Bit odd, perhaps, that I haven’t actually got to work on the actual apotheosis, just the witnesses below.


Posted as part of my Outstagram project: posting here things (mostly visual) that I might previously have posted on Instagram.


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