New and Improved(?) horsemen

Just a quick recap: this was the starting composition for my Apocalypse 2020 (Below)

The last time we saw Plague, she had a strange hood/mask/halo thing around her head (you knew that wasn’t going to work, right?). She was sitting in a wheelchair, holding a industrial-looking mask and a vial of blood. Her face is that of an early Chinese doctor.

I quickly realized that she didn’t belong in a wheelchair - she needed to be in a plane. Virus travels fast, which is why I gave her sneakers.(Below)

(Below) You never get an empty seat next to you on a plane - neither does Plague. She’s now sitting next to copies of herself.

(Below) And she has a new face, one that you probably don’t recognize, so I gave her a name-tag: T. Mary………..too obvious? Too subtle? Typhoid Mary. Forget the vial of blood - she’s now reaching out to you with open arms, ready to share. Her masks have been carelessly tossed aside.

Then we have War, who we left sitting on the ground in the bus station (Below left). I lifted his head, gave him a face and a variety of armor……

(Below) I let him spread out his legs and tried a Roman helmet. I really liked that face, with his eyes shut against some horror…but he’s not going to work.

This fellow (Below left) did not have the feeling I wanted, at all. But he had the position. And you can do amazing things with enough costuming. I took an old Viking helmet and added horns.

At some point I realized that War doesn’t need a face, just enough armor and weapons… .and I flattened him a bit.

(Above left) This one seemed perfect: a bold X of crossed red guns, Medieval armor and 20th century mechanical arms, and a torso covered in lamellar armor. But when I tried to insert him into the bus station composition, something weird happened -his arms, legs and head appeared unattached to his the torso. I won’t bore you with my many attempts to get him to fit. I finally gave up and threw some chain-mail between his legs.

Slight change of schedule here: as usual, there’s a lag between the actual work progress and when you read about it. (too stressful doing up-to-the-minute,). Apocalypse 2020 is finished and ready to share. I’m going to get it out there ( On Facebook, Instagram, etc) on Monday. Here’s the complete piece (Below)

Next week, the development of Famine and Death, but I wanted you to see the finished work as it comes out.

Hope that makes sense……contact me at dianesavona@aol.com