Boy with a Long Neck (Who Dreamed of an Empire)

New painting with a long neck & a long title!

Boy with a Long Neck (Who Dreamed of an Empire), 2013, acrylic on board, 12" x 9".

Sketch of a Warrior with a Long Neck

I like the incompleteness & angularity of this one:


Sketch of a Warrior with a Long Neck, 2010, brush & ink on paper, 11" x 8.5".

Sketch of a Man's Head With a Long Neck

New silverpoint sketch:


Sketch of a Man's Head With a Long Neck, 2009, silverpoint on prepared card, 11" x 8.5".

Although I like the faint, almost ghostly qualities of silverpoint, I discoved today that if I use liver of sulphur, the lines will tarnish to dark brown & perhaps even black. I shall have to try it.

Woman With a Very Long Neck (Beauty Among the Ruins)

After my brief interlude of high strangeness sigilry (see post below this one), here is a new (actually, newly enhanced) drawing for the Entropy Series:


Woman With a Very Long Neck (Beauty Among the Ruins), 2009, brush & ink on paper, 23.5" x 18".

It's from my Mannerist period, which lasted, oh, for the length of time it took to do this drawing. I did it a week or so & was almost happy with it, I even had it uploaded on my blog for a little while, but decided I didn't like the neck, mostly. I think I've now improved it, as well as a few other parts of the drawing. Time will tell, as usual. I may take it down again.