Primariorial

Yes, it is a made up word. Primary colors, and primorial put together makes the title.

Primariorial artwork by Cecile Grace Charles

Primary colors blended together in my dash and dot style. The style is reminiscent of the Pointillism style.

Although, Pointilillisme is now considered applying small dots or dashes of color to create and image. Historically, the dashes and dots were much much larger because the canvases were normally 8 feet tall by 6 feet tall or larger.

I use a combination of the historical, my dashes and dots are larger, longer and drawn out but at the same time they are modern because they are not the small imagery you see in modern artworks by artists using the style.

Plus, of course in history the style would be used with two colors next to each other to make a third color. Here, I do not do that, my colors are blocked in the background and the lines and dots in front that make up the lion are grouped but not blended.

My theme is inclusive of the rainbow. Not pointing the theme or description specifically at the political, lifestyle or gender connotation, although it is there in a broader context, instead I am referring to the prism of color that makes up the rainbow.

My point of focus are the eyes and the fact the rainbow itself is pleasing.

However, historically in Greek mythology, the rainbow is personified by the goddess Iris, who serves as a messenger between the gods and humans, while in Abrahamic traditions, it represents God's covenant with Noah after the flood. Many lion artworks around the world come from this theme and I nod here to that in a lighthearted way.

Abrahamic religions are a set of monotheistic religions that respect or admire the religious figure Abraham, namely Judaism, Christianity and Islam, though the term also often encompasses several smaller faiths. The religions of this set share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that contrasts them with Indian religions, Iranian religions, and East Asian religions, although throughout the rainbow has been adopted in one way or another.

Historically a few hundred different cultures embrace the rainbow in one form or another, so it does not belong to any one sect.

Why do I mention it?

A part of learning how to do art, is to infuse history within the canvas or paper you are working on. All of my art has the history of color as well as some forms that refer to history. Being subliminal is common in my artworks, even the more realistic ones are infused with a higher meaning.

But I do love a vivid artwork and I am partial to lions as well. When you look at one of my lion artworks though, think of how lions have affected generation after generation of humanity.

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