The Rival Queens

The Rival Queens By Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.
 This will be my last post on this blog. You can follow my work on Instagram @mygoodbabushka

The Rival Queens

Work in progress.

The Rival Queens

Work in progress.

The Rival Queens

Work in progress today. Soon I will be posting painting updates to my Instagram, and giving this blog a rest, so if you like to follow these works, see them at @mygoodbabushka

The Rival Queens

Work in progress today.

The Sad Historians of the Pensive Plain

The Sad Historians of the Pensive Plain. By Julie Kwiaktowski Schuler.

The Sad Historians of the Pensive Plain

Work in progress today.

The Sad Historians of the Pensive Plain

Work in progress.

The Sad Historians of the Pensive Plain

Work in progress.

The Horseradish Dinner

The Horseradish Dinner. By Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.

The Horseradish Dinner

Work in progress.
In a few more days, I'm going to give this blog a rest, but you can still follow my paintings in progress on Instagram @mygoodbabushka

The Horseradish Dinner

Work in progress.

The Horseradish Dinner

The Horseradish Dinner. Work  in progress.

The Horseradish Dinner.

Work in progress.

The Horseradish Dinner

Work in progress today.

Alexamenos Worships His God

The Alexamenos graffito (also known as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito) is a piece of Roman graffiti scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome. It may be the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus, and if so is the earliest known pictorial representation of the Crucifixion. It is hard to date but has been estimated to have been made c. 200. The image seems to show a young man worshipping a crucified, donkey-headed figure. The Greek inscription reads something like "Alexamenos worships [his] God." The graffito was apparently meant to mock a Christian named Alexamenos.

I was interested in remaking this graffito as a painting because of it's surreal, fairy-tale like qualities, and for it's historical importance as the first Crucifixion image.
Alexamenos Worships His God. By Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.

Alexamenos Worships His God Redux

The Alexamenos graffito (also known as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito) is a piece of Roman graffiti scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome. It may be the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus, and if so is the earliest known pictorial representation of the Crucifixion. It is hard to date but has been estimated to have been made c. 200. The image seems to show a young man worshipping a crucified, donkey-headed figure. The Greek inscription reads something like "Alexamenos worships [his] God." The graffito was apparently meant to mock a Christian named Alexamenos.

I was interested in remaking this graffito as a painting because of it's surreal, fairy-tale like qualities, and for it's historical importance as the first Crucifixion image. Work in progress.