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Re: The Exodus begins
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Thu, 5 Sep 2002 00:11:55 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
> Great work as always.
Thanks!
> There's a flaw in Ex 2:11. It looks like there is a piece
> of tape or something on the curved brick. Perhaps that should be
> photoshopped out?
Actually, that's printing on the baseplate itself. It does look sort of
strange when that's the only printing you see in that photo. You can see
more of that sort of printing in this photo
http://bricktestament.com/exodus/moses_commits_murder/ex02_13b.html
> you've made Moses a little more brutal than I
> would have. I don't know of any Biblical evidence for him killing off other
> Egyptian guards or the shepherds, but I guess that's artistic license.
The Bible establishes Moses as a murderer in his first recorded act as an
adult. Granted I've tave taken some interpretive license in portraying
Moses's fleeing from Pharaoh and later his coming to the assistance of the
seven daughters, but I feel I have kept his character and actions consistent
with his earlier depiction as a hot-tempered, quick-acting, violent man.
There is also some room for interpretation in these illustrations. Maybe it
was God who struck down the Pharaoh's guards and set Moses free. Also I
didn't necessarily mean for Moses to be slaughtering those shepherds at the
well so much as driving them away violently (hence the lack of blood).
> One
> question, between Ex 2:21 and 2:22 Moses gains bushy gray eyebrows. Are
> these two different heads? Or did you have to modify the head to add the
> eyebrows.
This was done in Photoshop, combining the eyebrows from this head...
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/revbps/Minifig-Faces/160mod.jpg
...with the young Moses head I'd been using. The intention is to depict
some aging in the time that Moses spends at his Midianite father-in-law's
place before having a child. It also serves as a visual transition from
young Moses to older Moses who will make his appearance in the next set of
Exodus stories soon to come. If you look at the thumbnail photo for Exodus
on The Brick Testament's main page, you can see that older Moses will have a
long gray beard over the 160mod.jpg head with the bushy eyebrows.
Thanks for the comments. @8^)
-Rev. Smith
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| (...) Brendan, Great work as always. I think my favorite detail is the pair of Jar-Jar statues in Exodus 1:10. Also the picture just after that of the Hebrew Slaves pulling blocks around is great. Another good detail is the varying height of the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Sep-02, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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