New Illustration: Landscape and History! The Storm on Lake Lucerne

 

As a Burgundian Wars-era (1474-1477) Swiss Foot Soldier crosses a windy pass, in the distance, over the picturesque and beautiful Lake Lucerne, a storm approaches. The wind blows, and two large golden eagles appear to be approaching the Soldier...

This illustration, I loved painting every detail of the wonderful landscape around the Lake, was made especially for "The Alpine Arcane Trophy", a "Sorcery:  Contested Realm" tournament taking place in Baden, Switzerland, in October. The illustration will be published as a special playmat for the winners and as a special card.

I thank the Organizers so much for giving me this wonderful artistic opportunity!

Here's all the information about The Alpine Arcane Trophy:

https://alpine-arcane.ch/

The two "Foot Soldier" (Token) illustrations made for "Sorcery Arthurian Legends"

 

Here the two paintings are placed side by side, so that the British Arthurian Foot Soldier (in a coastal landscape reminiscent of the English coast) and the Saracen Foot Soldier appear to confront each (even the ground line of the background almost seems to be one the counterpart of the other, in the two illustrations)

Here are the two small cards. 

I take advantage of this space to repost the Illustration "Plague", because, having recently seen the new -beautiful -  "Nosferatu" by Robert Eggers, this image came to mind. There are natural analogies, I think, with the part of the film where rats carry the plague and a street in the (fictional) German city of Wisborg is shown.

Even in this illustration, since I love German medieval and Renaissance architecture, I had fun inserting elements typical of half-timbered houses.

This is one of my favorite illustrations and I enjoyed painting it!

Here is a detail of the work in progress