I painted this as a commission portrait, with the instructions to place the Mayan calendar behind him. To make this amount of detail more achievable for me, I simplified the hieroglyphs into more general light-dark shapes, but I still had to get them in the right positions. Tracing to the rescue!
I painted the underpainting in acrylic (magenta and white), and then made the rest in oil paint. My iPhone camera messed up the magenta color, making it more red, in the first process shot below. The last one came from my scanner and is the most correct color.
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