Salvator Mundi, after Leonardo da Vinci, redemption song Artwork

Salvator Mundi, redemption song. Starting with one of my foul mouthed paintings, (also on Saatchi, see https://www.saatchiart.com/print/Painting-Depths-colour-surface-and-others/301909/1595015/view) I worked towards da Vinci's recently rediscovered masterpiece Salvator Mundi, current record holder for highest price paid for an artwork at auction. Digital painting in Krita, open source software. What was I trying to achieve? From this perspective I am no longer sure. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Done last year. The painting that I have copied, is called Salvator Mundi, and has been attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci, and is the current record holder for highest price paid for a work of art. It sold to a buyer from the arab world, and was subsequently donated to the Abu Dhabi Louvre. It sold at auction for 400 million dollars, plus 50.3 million in costs. So it's price was recorded as 450.3 million dollars (US) The wikipedia page about the work is a good read, there is a fascinating history behind it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Mundi_%28Leonardo%29 There was no thought in my head of spending this long on it. I can't justify the time, to paraphrase my fathers famous (in my mind) words. The work that I used as a background and colour palette, is mine (of course) from 2012/13, and is a watercolour on paper work, from my Prose and Profanity series. You can see a process video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXrroiBFm6I and although I stared strong, the attempts at perfection meant that I invested over 240 hours in this work. (I have done a little more fixing since the video was made. After seeing the finished print, I realised there was still more to go.) Digital painting timelapse. one screenshot every 5 seconds. 50 frames per second playback. One second is 5 minutes of real time. I missed some days, by forgetting to start the screengrabbing program, but there are also times when I left the thing running while I got distracted so it probably works out about right. 170,367 screenshots in the end, so at 50 frames per second, you get a 56 minutes and 46 minutes of timelapse video. So that's a lot of timelapse. I suppose I will subsequently try making a more accelerated version. Now, in terms of the work, and of course, since the screenshots are taken once every 5 seconds, since we know that it is being captured at 12 frames per minute, 170367/12 = 14197.25 minutes = 236 hours 37 minutes of work. So that's a lot of work. I started on the nineteenth of March, and finished today which is the third of June. Counting the screencapture folders, there was work done on 70 days of the period, but also there were a couple of days that I forgot to capture. Because the were 76 days in that period, so I must have missed at least four or five. Hell of a lot of work for a less than heavenly result. Digital painting program is Krita. https://krita.org Timelapse created in Blender. https://blender.org with screenshots captured with AutoScreenCapture https://sourceforge.net/projects/autoscreen/ Scott Charles Leichhardt Hollingsworth http://spaingaroo.com http://facebook.com/spaingaroo

Mixed Media:Digital on Other

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Size:19.7 W x 27.6 H x 0 D in

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