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"If the Summer changed to Winter
yours is no disgrace." (Yes)

This one cost me a lot of sleep, both in front of the computer and away from it, but I think I got there in the end.
Looking at it now, I feel it has a lot more meaning than the mere allegory of the turning of the season that I intended.
For now I just add that it has nothing to do with the wider meaning of the Yes song 'Yours is no disgrace', as far as I know at least. It's just that these two favourite lines kept echoing in my head when creating this painting got momentum, and all on their own they fit perfectly.
If you don't get it now, you might get it later, much, much later. *melancholic grin*

A big Спасйбо to ~Mart-elle , the 'virtual model' for this one. I used one of her pictures as a reference, but I'm not sure if I got her likeness right - the picture had an other expression than I wanted so I had to use my imagination. Everything else was painted out of my head, without models, reference, copy-pasting, rendering etc.

Amusing detail: at one point I got seriously stuck trying to paint these two in a nice 17th-century light inside a room. There was just this wall behind it with a skirting (US: mopboard) as its only feature... and it was so dull. And then I saw the light - the wall could be this huge sky and the skirting a very low, very wide horizon, rather like some Russian landscape painting. Woot.
Stupid me, trying to paint the seasons and the weather inside a room...

Tools: PSP7, Wacom pentablet, Irfan View.

P.S. For anyone not fluent in the good old Anglo-Saxon alphabet, for 'Ye' read 'The'. I'm not trying to be folksy, it's just that my title was one letter too long for DA's title-length-limit. It was either that or 'If the Summer Changed 2 Winter'. I think not.
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Description
"If the Summer changed to Winter
yours is no disgrace." (Yes)

This one cost me a lot of sleep, both in front of the computer and away from it, but I think I got there in the end.
Looking at it now, I feel it has a lot more meaning than the mere allegory of the turning of the season that I intended.
For now I just add that it has nothing to do with the wider meaning of the Yes song 'Yours is no disgrace', as far as I know at least. It's just that these two favourite lines kept echoing in my head when creating this painting got momentum, and all on their own they fit perfectly.
If you don't get it now, you might get it later, much, much later. *melancholic grin*

A big Спасйбо to ~Mart-elle , the 'virtual model' for this one. I used one of her pictures as a reference, but I'm not sure if I got her likeness right - the picture had an other expression than I wanted so I had to use my imagination. Everything else was painted out of my head, without models, reference, copy-pasting, rendering etc.

Amusing detail: at one point I got seriously stuck trying to paint these two in a nice 17th-century light inside a room. There was just this wall behind it with a skirting (US: mopboard) as its only feature... and it was so dull. And then I saw the light - the wall could be this huge sky and the skirting a very low, very wide horizon, rather like some Russian landscape painting. Woot.
Stupid me, trying to paint the seasons and the weather inside a room...

Tools: PSP7, Wacom pentablet, Irfan View.

P.S. For anyone not fluent in the good old Anglo-Saxon alphabet, for 'Ye' read 'The'. I'm not trying to be folksy, it's just that my title was one letter too long for DA's title-length-limit. It was either that or 'If the Summer Changed 2 Winter'. I think not.
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