Victoria Olson Art – Watercolor, Egg Tempera & Oil

Dante’s Inferno Canto VI (13-15) Cerberus 2016 – Oil on canvas –

Canto VI Cerberus 2016 The Divine Comedy (Illustration) Dante awakens in the 3rd circle. Cold dirty rain-fall, mixing with heavy hailstones, pounding down, finally, streaking the nude bodies of the condemned souls lying supine in the filthy mud. (epic poetry of Dante Alighieri) Cerberus, the three-headed, dog-like worm beast stands over the souls clawing at the slightest…

Canto VI Cerberus 2016

The Divine Comedy (Illustration)

Dante awakens in the 3rd circle.

Cold dirty rain-fall, mixing with heavy hailstones, pounding down, finally, streaking the nude bodies of the condemned souls lying supine in the filthy mud. (epic poetry of Dante Alighieri)

Cerberus, the three-headed, dog-like worm beast stands over the souls clawing at the slightest movement made by the supine lying in the filth.

The process of the painting is below.

I did a few drawings like this one above and a watercolor.

Next, I painted a similar version on a canvas with egg tempera to start with.

I started building up shape and color

Then I changed my mind about something

I wanted a frontal view of the mouth

Almost finished

Victoria Olson Art – Watercolor, Egg Tempera & Oil

Dante’s Inferno Canto VI (13-15) Cerberus 2016 – Oil on canvas –

Canto VI Cerberus 2016

The Divine Comedy (Illustration)

Dante awakens in the 3rd circle.

Cold dirty rain-fall, mixing with heavy hailstones, pounding down, finally, streaking the nude bodies of the condemned souls lying supine in the filthy mud. (epic poetry of Dante Alighieri)

Cerberus, the three-headed, dog-like worm beast stands over the souls clawing at the slightest movement made by the supine lying in the filth.

I did a few drawings like this one above and a watercolor.

Next, I painted a similar version on a canvas with egg tempera to start with.

I started building up shape and color

Then I changed my mind about something

I wanted a frontal view of the mouth

I put everything more or less where I wanted it

And then I changed my mind again

That’s what I like about art

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Dante’s Inferno Canto VI (13-15) Cerberus 2016 – Oil on canvas –

Canto VI Cerberus 2016

The Divine Comedy (Illustration)

Dante awakens in the 3rd circle.

Cold dirty rain-fall, mixing with heavy hailstones, pounding down, finally, streaking the nude bodies of the condemned souls lying supine in the filthy mud. (epic poetry of Dante Alighieri)

Cerberus, the three-headed, dog-like worm beast stands over the souls clawing at the slightest movement made by the supine lying in the filth.

I did a few drawings like this one above and a watercolor.

Next, I painted a similar version on a canvas with egg tempera to start with.

I started building up shape and color

Then I changed my mind about something

I wanted a frontal view of the mouth

I put everything more or less where I wanted it

And then I changed my mind again

That’s what I like about art

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