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SPQR Blues ([personal profile] spqrblues) wrote2016-05-08 03:00 pm
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Sketch of the day: Alexander & Menander

This is art for one of the Kickstarter prints. I originally hand-watercoloured it, but that didn't print well, so I redid it digitally and got better results.



The print includes a verse from Catullus:
Value all the old men's gossip less than copper coins.
Suns set yet rise again, but when our brief light sets
that long night will be an endless sleep . . .

Not so much grim but an encouragement to enjoy life while you can. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, and all that.

A couple of watercolour tests I did to see how they'd print:





 

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