Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Bottom of the Well Painting
Here's a painting I just did based on the creepy face you see on the wall in the Shadow Temple and the Bottom of the Well dungeon in Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It's probably the quickest painting I've ever done. It's acrylic on wood, only one foot squared and made entirely from leftover premixed paint from other projects. It came out very German Expressionist and as always looks better in person.
It was kind of difficult trying to interpret a blurry N64 texture but that's also sort of one of the best qualities is that telephone game or having something lost in translation. You're kind of forced to fill in the gaps and put it in your own interpretation. I never noticed that the hands appear to be coming out of a hole in the floor. This implies that this guy either has a long neck and he is trapped in something similar to stocks or this is a severed head propped up on hands. Either way it's even weirder than I thought. I may do a series of creepy stuff in OoT like Bongo Bongo, the Dead Hand, Redeads, etc.