Oil on wood (cabinet door)
Lion on handle sculpted from polymer clay.

FULL VIEW is a must.
Please keep the obvious camera distortion in mind.
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This project brought the excitement back into my art process. I loved the costuming and detail in the Prince Caspian movie and I knew I just needed to paint Peter's armor. When I saw this pose, I couldn't help but think of the works by Gustave Moreau--it was inspired by his painting "Orpheus" and is somewhat an homage to it: [link] I've always loved Moreau's work (I'll never forget the first time I saw his Oedipus and the Sphinx at the Met) and in the same manner that he ventured into symbolist art by portraying scenes from mythology, I long to capture 19th and 20th century stories and folklore in my work. This project brought that goal back to life, and although I am classifying this as fanart, when I move into my new studio, I can assure you that I will be creating more like this using my own vision of characters and my own models, and my own source photos.

I originally wanted to make this a 6ft tall pastel drawing, but given the space that I'm in now, the logistics were near impossible. Now, I have several old kitchen cabinet doors that a friend had pulled out of the trash for art purposes...she moved and couldn't take them with her so naturally I took them off her hands. When my drawing idea fell through, I thought long and hard about how I was going to execute this project....and then it hit me: Narnia => Wardrobe => Door...door! I had all of these little doors! So there you have it. I think I'm going to see about getting a cabinet made up specifically for this door....but what to keep inside.....hmmm.....

Here are the various sources I have used for the scene:
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EDIT: I've changed the front foot. I hated the way it looked before and I finally fixed it. You can see the process in my art blog: [link]