Rubens’ Nymphs and Satires, but with Swamp Dragons
26 May 2021
I painted Peter Paul Rubens’ Nymphs and Satyres, but with Sir Terry Pratchett’s swamp dragons.
The oil painting shows 18 swamp dragons. Six are at least partly in the water, four are on the island, five in trees and three on a rocky crag.
The water was painted using a mixture of phthalo green, phthalo blue and dark verdigris. Oil painting is one of those hobbies where you can easily spend £30 on a small tube of paint, but sometimes it is totally worth it.