One of my favorite authors as a kid was Jack London. The thing that came to mind in this case and stuck was a theme similar to one from White Fang. The idea was, to depict one master, the musher Henry, fighting off a pack of starving wolves as they beset him along with his 2 remaining dogs on their way to deliver a corpse to it’s burial spot. Henry also served as servant to a wealthy family, who paid him to trek the corpse in a pine box across hundreds of miles of wild arctic terrain. In turn, his sled-dogs served as servant to Henry, pulling the sled laden with corpse. The wolves in this case were servant to their hunger and willing to do whatever necessary to satiate their most basic need. The master of all in the story is the wild, to whom all are at it’s mercy.
So I started painting away at a concept, which realisically, is way more than I can tackle right now and I think would be better served as a 2D piece. I might come back and finish.
While researching late 19th and early 20th century arctic gear, I came on some cool pictures of Gunnar Kasson and his famous dog Balto. So this led to a much simpler idea of a larger than life Balto, whom caries a healer on back.
I’ll post up a story sometime soon.
I’ll give it some thought.
