Above: study of Macbeth based on the film adaptation by Orson Welles.
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
- Orson Welles
Visual experiments illustrating Shakespeare's Macbeth. A short flirtation with Macbeth was abandoned as a comic adaptation would require severe editing of the source text and would leave audiences unsatisfied.
Below: a contemporary take on Macbeth illustrating Tony Blair, prophecy and oil
(left: initial pencil sketch. Below: mixed media. Ink, acrylic and collage on typewriter paper).
A section of the text was typed on an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter, cut-up and pasted on to the illustration. With my laptop out of action, I resorted to using a typewriter to complete the illustration. Click to enlarge.
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