Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 29, 2009, 7:54 am
Here are the legs a bit closer - it seems I took the pic at an angle, the soles of his feet are on the same level in the painting. There seem to be sandal straps in Caesarion's right foot, but I ...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 29, 2009, 7:51 am
A busy week behind - only today I found time to paint some more. This time I did Caesarion's legs. They were covered by a pleated "skirt" - took some thinking to plan how to make that effect show...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 19, 2009, 1:06 pm
Managed to squeeze some time to paint today. This time I concentrated on Caesarion's Ka. The pics are a bit yellow again - artificial light... Last time the details were about those 30 captives ...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 15, 2009, 11:12 am
Ok, now I moved on to Caesarion's kilt. An egyptology-student-friend, Barry Burnett, visited Denderah last month and I finally got detailed enough photos to see what was depicted on the kilt. And...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 8, 2009, 9:59 am
And yesterday's hieroglyphs a bit closer. Some of them had suffered a little, but all in all this spot of the wall was pretty well preserved. Hope I got the spelling right!
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 8, 2009, 9:54 am
Goodness, what a week! Had no time to paint until today. So here you have some more hieroglyphs added between the figures. I have to say I am glad we use the Western alphabet... If I am not much mist...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 2, 2009, 12:00 pm
Painted a little of the stone between Cleopatra and Caesarion. And now I'm off to read a book about the rise of civilization in the Nile Valley...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 1, 2009, 9:44 am
And a little closer... You may see the arch-shape on Caesarion's waist if you look carefully. I am not sure what that is...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Nov 1, 2009, 9:43 am
I had a little time to continue with Caesarion this morning. Painted the stone on the right of his face and his torso. I could make up these ever-so-faint forms along his waist, but I am not sure what...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 25, 2009, 5:33 am
This photo perhaps shows the differences in the "skin". Cleopatra's skin is smooth, Caesarion's filled with tiny chisel marks.
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 25, 2009, 5:31 am
This morning I painted Caesarion's right arm. It is interesting to see the difference between their arms: Cleopatra's are smooth, on Caesarion's you can see the chisel marks clearly. The ...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 18, 2009, 11:37 am
Here are Cleopatra and Caesarion a bit closer. Did you know Caesarion's real name was Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar? Caesarion was a kind of a nickname. Philopator means "father-lovin...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 18, 2009, 11:28 am
Today I painted Caesarion's face for three hours. I had one sharp(ish) reference photo, but the light came from the opposite angle than in my own reference photo. You can imagine how it felt... I ...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 18, 2009, 11:26 am
Made one more zoom to the faces of Cleopatra and Caesarion - even when his face isn't quite finished. Their eyes were suprisingly dark in the reference photo I took myself - probably carved prett...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 15, 2009, 2:18 pm
Caesarion's crown(s) a bit closer. The photo is on the yellow side - taken in artificial light at 10 pm. If the pharaohs really did wear such crowns they had to walk very carefully or else their ...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 15, 2009, 2:09 pm
It was time to start painting Caesarion. He is wearing the crown of Egypt - or two crowns really; the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. Together they symbolized that the pharaoh ruled the two lands - E...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 11, 2009, 6:43 am
Here is a closeup of the glyphs surrounding Cleopatra's body One of the stones right at her knee-level seems to have been taken out of the wall in the past. (Some ancient robbers perhaps?)
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 11, 2009, 6:36 am
Today I decided to paint the hieroglyphs on the right of Cleopatra, down to the soles of her feet. I wanted to define her figure, to use the shadows in the stone to bring her "out" of the stone. I di...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 5, 2009, 1:02 pm
Here's a closeup of the part I painted yesterday. Such a small space, yet it took almost three hours to finish. You can see there are deep shadows on the stone above Cleopatra's hands. Painti...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 5, 2009, 12:48 pm
Today I painted part of the stone wall on the right of Cleopatra. The lower part of the sistrum in her hand was almost destroyed, the upper part was more or less intact. It took me almost three hour...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 4, 2009, 3:29 am
Hubby took a picture of yours truly, just as I started painting the hieroglyphs on the right of Cleopatra. This is my work room. We just moved so the only thing I have there is the easel (and the book...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 1, 2009, 2:41 pm
Two and a half hours went into the two cartouches on the right of Cleopatra. After that I went to see the news and rest my eyes (and shoulders). When I came back I noticed I´ll probably need to wo...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Oct 1, 2009, 2:41 pm
Vincent mentioned in an earlier comment he likes to see details of the painting, so I´ll be posting those. Here are the two cartouches between Cleopatra and Cesarion. Interestingly the lions were ha...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Sep 29, 2009, 11:40 pm
Here is a detail of the upper hieroglyphs. The hawk had quite a few details - it has all of its feathers so beautifully carved you wouldn't believe. I used a magnifying glass to count them, but i...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Sep 29, 2009, 11:28 pm
I was going to paint the whole area on the right of Cleopatra including the cartouches, but had a bit of a headache, so this is how far I got this time. You can see I paint from left to right. The re...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Sep 28, 2009, 11:56 am
Here you can see a detail of Cleopatra's head (I´ll probably work on it later again). Cleopatra wears a tripartite wig and a head-dress with several uraei, a solar disk between cow's horns an...
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Leena Pekkalainen posted an article on Ancient Egyptian Art - Sep 28, 2009, 7:40 am
I did wonder what to call this blog, but maybe it was too easy... I have loved anything Egypt since I was a child. I dreamt of studying Egyptology but it was not possible here where I live. I have a...
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