Selene (Full Moon)
Selene was the divine personification of the Moon.
In the traditional pre-Olympian divine genealogy, Helios, the sun, is Selene's brother. After her brother, Helios, finishes his journey across the sky, Selene begins her own journey as night falls
upon the earth. Her sister, Eos, is goddess of the dawn.
- wikipedia.org
Oil on canvas 20 x 15 inches
(50 x 38 cm)
Manchester City Art Gallery
© William Pitcher 2006
36x54 inches pigmented ink print on canvas with several layers of varnish. The actual image size is 39x57 wrapped around the edges of heavy-duty stretcher bars . Meticulous attention has been paid to detail (see the crop below).
Typically, each image consists of 15-20 photographic pieces and countless layers. Even working with PhotoShop's large file format (which allows me to save files larger than the 2 gigabyte limit) work is spread across several files until I can amalgamate and flatten components.
2 1/4 sq. inches - 0.1 % of the surface
Silver
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Walter de la Mare
