This is a study of painting done in the Pre-Raphaelite style by J.W. Waterhouse. The challenge of the columns along with doing a human using acrylics (it’s been a while) intrigued me. While I prefer to paint on gessoed boards, I’ve had this canvas lying around for the better part of a year and I figured I should do something with it.

The size of the original painting is 52.1 x 67.3 cm, so this was done at 58% and was somewhat cropped to fit the aspect ratio. The reduction added some challenge — painting larger, to a point, is usually easier.

The biggest difficulty comes from the fact that the original was painted on top of another painting, and that painting does show through. Trying to figure out which texture was attributable to which painting made me make decisions that inevitably altered the work. Because of that, this is not so much an art reproduction as it is an interpretation.