Atlas #4a, 2007

I haven't posted any of these little doodles in ages. They weren't really meant for others to see but as etudes or study pieces: the incentive to learn my way around a drawing program. I ended up rather pleased with these atlas things & I'd sort of forgotten about this one. Quite colorful, eh? It's no secret that I've always been captivated by the colors of Indian miniatures, particularly the paintings from Kangra & the Punjab Hills. Having been inspired by fourteenth century cosmology & celestial maps, other works from the Atlas series were predominately blue; this one isn't…

That red is so damned intense, which is exactly as it should be. (It's a map of Hell.)