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The Butler’s Domain

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Week 4 of Guess The Author/Artist on Ineffable Professional Bang (<= 666 words)

Prompt: Sommelier

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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Notes:

In a traditional grand household, the head butler reigned supreme over the male lower staff and the wine cellar, amongst other duties.

Below the line are several sources I used:

 

- Vincent Van Gogh, self portrait - I tried to emulate his style. It was fun to do and not difficult for most things, I especially liked how the gloved hands and glass objects turned out. But it’s a very longwinded way to colour things, this small picture took me approximately 10 hours. I must say that for the face, as well as the highlights, I had to deviate from the single-stroke style because it just wouldn’t look good for me with the rough granularities. So I added some finer airbrush strokes.

- An example of glass objects painted by Van Gogh

- My own line-art (I traced; I’m not good at forms especially faces; love playing with colours and light and shadows though) I made some years ago of a still of Butler Carson of Downton Abby decanting wine; and the still

- An explanation about the decanting process I found

- Az still