(Negative) - (Original) Submissio Tauri ( 16 x 20 | Acrylic on Canvas, 2024)

The Noble Death of a Roman Matriarch. A monochromatic piece of artwork depicts a standing figure with an abstract cow-like pattern on its body holding out a white cloth to the right. In the background, there is a bull standing to the right of the figure, rendered in a similar stylistic approach with minimal detail. In the "negative" style, I reverse the colors as I paint so that dark areas are light and vice versa. The goal is that when a negative filter is applied to the finished painting, the result approximates the original reference image.