Painting a Study in Scarlet, Reading Leo Tolstoy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Thomas Goetz

#speedpaint #pastel #art
www.deviantart...
cara.app/rieile
/ rieileart
t.me/rieile
Materials used: Pastelmat paper, Gamma and Unison pastels, sofft tools
Recommendations and references:
en.wikipedia.o...
www.arthur-con... Dr. Koch and His Cure by Arthur Conan Doyle, full text.
www.thomasgoet... Thomas Goetz's website
bedside-rounds.... an amazing podcast on the history of medicine

[@lanalanina3129]

Beautiful picture and interesting story!

[@NonsenseMediatedDecay]

@@lanalanina3129 thank you!

[@hauntedalhambra53]

I wish I was learned enough to join your monologue, but I fear I'm too lost in that field. However, I can say that the lighting in this portrait is marvellous. I wouldn't have said that's a screenlight - maybe I would, if I could see the original- since it has a divine vibe that endows your model with angelical features ^^
PS: I cannot tell you the reference, but I remember from my Anthropology lessons that red is not considered like the rest of the colors in many cultures. If I'm not wrong, some languages only have a word to name the whole palette, while using another term to specify 'red'. The lessons were pure crap anyway, so don't take me seriously...

[@NonsenseMediatedDecay]

Thank you! Actually, this is true, but not because red is somehow special, but there is a certain order in which color terms appear in languages, and for each number of color terms there is a certain way how to divide the visible spectrum in order to minimize ambiguity. There was an original book from Berlin and Kay (1969) 'Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution', which had some good observations, but larger datasets complicated the matters, but in general this order reflects 'usefulness' of certain terms for efficient communication. Check out this relatively recent research (from Kay himself!) www.researchgate.net/publication/314003825_Word_Meanings_across_Languages_Support_Efficient_Communication