One Voice Among Many

Mantle, Peruvian, Paracas-Nasca, South CoastEarly, Intermediate Period, Phase 1AD 1-100, Peru, South Coast.

Design: rows of shaman figures with heads thrown back, worked solidly with wool.

Camelid fiber plain weave embroidered with camelid fiber in stem-stitch, 142 x 241 cm (55 7/8 x 94 7/8 in.)

done for now!

maybe in the future when i learn how to mix oranges / yellows properly i’ll go back over the girls’ faces and paint in the glow from the lanterns but i’ve intentionally avoided those colours all of my life so i’m not risking messing the whole thing up by applying the wrong colour

i feel like i learned a lot by doing this, so i’ll keep doing them. i might even do a study of his final version of the painting bc i loved painting the girl’s gown and the colours he used are a bit different in his actual painting opposed to the draft.

I'm going to delete this tumblr soon... see margot.maison and this blog for artwork. Thanks!

I have been fascinated with harpies for a while. In ancient epic stories they were first described as a beautiful bird-women hybrids. The spirits of the wind. But with the next stories their image shifted to ugly and evil. Harpies became the tool of gods. Tool that brings cruel punishment. Ruthless and wild.