Cennini Lesson - Merlin Part II

This is a continuation of a Cennini Forum Lesson. The following are examples of illustrating Merlin and the Lady of the Lake. Here is the part of the poem that I chose to illustrate. (Reference previous November post.)

"And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws, And takes it in her hand and waves it over the blossomed thorn tree and her sleeping lover. Nine times she waved the fluttering wimple round, And made a little plot of magic ground.”

The task is to create big abstract black and white forms that convey the story in a powerful way. Next part is to make two color versions of the same illustration but create a different mood with a change in palette. One to create tranquil scene and one a dark and evil feeling of doom. The vertical ones appeal to me but I failed to lesson. I like these but I did not accomplish the lesson's objective...and that is less detail and more abstraction. On the vertical one I did get a shift in mood. I hope I will do better in the next lessons.

HORIZONTAL COMPOSITIONS





VERTICAL COMPOSITIONS