Inquisition

oil on board

Gordon Napier, Mar 2009

This scene of an auto da fe was commissioned for a heavy metal album cover. The client also requested a version with some surreal elements reflecting the band's sense of humour, and wanted one of the condemned to have rabbit ears. This inspired the version below where all the characters have cartoon animal features. These heads and tails were done on a separate piece of bard and superimposed digitally onto the original image, with refinement and modification done in photoshop.