Ophelia drawing

“do you ever feel like an ophelia painting?”

"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; and there's pansies, that's for thoughts. ..There's fennel for you, and columbines, there's rue for you, and here's some for me, we may call it herb of grace o'Sundays." — Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 5. . . . .Walter Crane,Wood engravings From Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden. A posy from the plays, pictured by Walter Crane.

Study sketch of Elizabeth Siddall's head, for Ophelia by Millais

First piece of my series '𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘦.' Ophelia is a character I've always been fascinated by. So many pieces depicting her are usually full of color and thought it would be interesting to capture her demise in grey scale. Drowning the color out helps bring a new perspective to her despair.

The inflexible conventions of classical art, combined with the social unrest that was arising as a result of large-scale industrialization set the scene in the mid-19th century for a rebellious group of young artists to express their discontent through an art movement they formed called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. #preraphaelite #preraphaelitebrotherhood #preraphaelites #arthistory #artincontext

ophelia tattoo