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Romeo: Iroquoisinthe Castle


ajlafleche

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Here is Romeo’s 75mm “Iroquois in the Castle.” It is based
on a Robert Grifffing painting. The back story is that the French told the
native people they were building a trading post at the site of Fort Niagara
overlooking Lake Ontario. When the native people saw the castle with its 3 foot
thick walls, they realized this was to be more than a trading post and that
their way of live was coming to an end. To emphasize this, I experimented in
painting the scene with angled lighting
coming through the window as opposed to my usual zenithal light. To emphasize
this, I added a title plaque calling this “Iroquois Sunset” for both the time
of day depicted and the history. Griffing added a chair to fill the space along
the wall and I was able to find one in scale from Walthers by way of my LHS.
The wall and floor were extended with foam, railroad cobble stone stock and
spackle to fit the Birch Tree Enterprises base. I cut acetate to size for each
window pane and used pastels to cast the window frame shadow on the wall behind
it.



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