Thursday, August 7, 2014 B
"Drawing: Wepwawet"
8:46pm
Ink pen and colored pencil on acid free paper, 17.8 x 25.3 cm (7 x 10 in.)
I got inspired by a statue at the Walters museum. Okay, the statue is of Anubis (Anpu), but someone knowledgeable thought the two cobras suggested Wepwawet. But a zoom in on the glyphs, and it's Anpu.
You want Wepwawet? We artists can fix! :)
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For the glyphs, I consulted various sources, including Per-Sabu's photos of various images of Wepwawet. There's some variance to the glyphs used, but I went with the ones in George Hart's "Egyptian Gods", and the example of vertical placement on the cartonnage of Nespanetjernpare at the Brooklyn Museum as captured at Per Sabu. |
Saturday, August 9, 2014
"Colorful Wepwawet"
8:07pm
Ink pen and colored pencil on acid free paper, 17.8 x 25.3 cm (7 x 10 in.)
How to color Wepwawet? I wondered, should I go grey or brown? Then I thought to check a colorful source, KV 57, Horemheb's tomb, (here if not there). A zoom reveals the black headed jackal deity is Anubis (Anpu), but it's the glyphs that tell you that. Anyway, black face, reddish body and bluish hair, that's what I went with. The jackal headed "Soul of Nekhen" in KV 16 has similar coloring.
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