2010-11-12 - Le Radeau de la Meduse - 2

Please See “TheHOINK”s Page, in the “Gallery” Section there is a Folder named “Le Radeau de la Méduse” where all Photos of the Series are located, so you can witness the whole process of recreating this Painting.

Original:
© 1819 - Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault
716x491cm (around 21x15feet)
Oil on Canvas

This Version:
Done as a Background for Stageplay, AND as a three month project for a group of long-term highly addicted, long-term unemployed and long-term social working people.
© TheHOINK 2010
270x210cm (around 9x7feet)
Oil on Canvas

It had to be done in the cheapest possible way AND as a project with around one or two days per week only for 2 to 4 hours per day. In three months total.
Plus, with people who mostly never ever painted before.
It was all traditionally done, like the original, first creating Scheps for the canvas as a base, painting it English/Venice-Red afterwards so the colours would shine more, then adding layer by layer of the painting to the finished one.
Open for any critics, comments, questions…