#approaching storm

Above it all, still, the light.

James Swinnerton (1875 - 1974), Approaching Storm

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It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing. The simple fact of existing, of living in time, can comprise a religious dimension. This dimension is not always obvious, since sacrality is in a sense camouflaged in the immediate, in the “natural” and the everyday. The joy of life discovered by the Greeks is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing — even fugitively — in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world. Like so many others before and after them, the Greeks learned that the surest way to escape from time is to exploit the wealth, at first sight impossible to suspect, of the lived instant.

Approaching Storm

Thomas Hart Benton

“Approaching Storm”

Originally I had done this as a speedpaint and guess on the colors back in 2021, felt like I could do a better job and ended up spending 3 days on and off working this.

I think I spent like hour moving the pupils and staring at them to make sure they were in the right spot otherwise the creep factor isn’t there like in the original by Wayne Barlowe(below the speedpaint)

Massive improvement