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The
Royal Music Barque
by
James Christensen
2750 Signed and
consecutively
numbered
Image size: 19"
x 19" $375
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Published from the
artist's original
oil painting.
Crafted with
embossing, gold-
and clear-foil
stamping,
and mezzotint
textured foil
technique.Clear-foil
stamping makes the gems and filigree sparkle, and
gold-foil stamping makes the royal flag and princess'
hairband shine. A "mezzotint" textured foil technique
gives the king's robe the proper look of royalty.
This piece has a little of the flavor of Handel's work. The ship, the instruments, and even the angel are based on things I've seen or researched, but I took off from there. The king's lion's-head lute is based on one I saw in the Victoria and Albert Museum music collection. The other characters are simply supporters of the music.
The mouse, playing a three-stringed ancestor of the violin, seemed to sit nicely in the crow's nest. He makes the whole thing diminutive, because I'm more willing to accept a little king than a gigantic mouse. The angel has butterfly wings, and the bird is simply listening ... or maybe doing vocals.
As for what happens next, I can only tell you a few things for sure. It's evening, they're up in the sky, and it's a very pleasant thing that's happening. From there, it's all up to you. -James Christensen
barque,
also bark n 1. A sailing ship
with three
to five masts, all of them square-rigged
except the after mast, which is
fore-and-aft rigged.
2. A small sailing vessel.
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