New Painting Icarus

This is a new piece, I'm working on an entire portfolio having to do with mythology and fairy tales. My message is that in our day and age, people strive to take the magic out of life and this is my way of bringing it back. Childhood is a wonderful thing and I strive to see the world like a child, making it worth living in every day! But on the flip side, because I am an adult, I deal with the horrors in my life and also the adult themes in my life such as sexuality, porn, murder, and others. So, let's see how it goes! All pieces will contain something adult, whether it be sexual or macabre and all will contain something child-like, a myth or fairy tale that children hear about regularly.

The first piece, Icarus.

Daedalus built wings for him and his nephew/son Icarus and sealed them to their bodies with wax. They flew up and away from the Minotaur's labyrinth and were flying somewhere far away because Daedalus had been exiled to the labyrinth by a jealous king. Daedalus fell asleep while flying, but not before he warned his son/nephew Icarus not to fly too high, for the wax would melt by the sun and he would fall to his death. As Daedalus was sleeping, Icarus wanted to see the wheels of the chariot (the sun), he wanted to meet Helios who flew the chariot from east to west each day and see the flaming horses, so he flew high up , trying desperately to see the chariot. Eventually the sun grew too hot and the wings melted from his body, casting his body toward the earth. Icarus's screams woke Daedalus just in time to see Icarus hit the sea and he watched the boy die before his very eyes and the sea swallow him up.

Not a very good children's tale huh?

This is just the inking, I'm still working on painting it as soon as I get a few done. Part one of the new portfolio!

Ben