Mobile Digital Art

John Bavaro

21st Century Fayum Mummy Portraits

Chris Fayum Portrait

BY JOHN BAVARO

Artist, Professor

Pennsylvania, USA

Here we’ll see how an artist might approach a subject with a very specific intent, and a method to match. We’ll learn the steps to replicate art from another century.

In Stage 1, I try to approximate the light and pose from antiquity, and that tries to takes into account that there was no artificial light in CE 100. The portrait ...