“Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was it the taste of blood?… Nay; but perchance it was the taste of love… They say that love hath a bitter taste… But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth.”
Since I am having to take a couple days off from my new projects, I figured I could post one of my older ones from 2015 from my series “American Wilderness”, which was my first solo show of my career at Roq La Rue Gallery:
“Vulpes vulpes”, 2015, Ball point pen, Ink pencils, Acrylic ink, Marker, Colored pencil, Graphite, and Gel pen on Hot-Pressed Watercolor Paper, 18 ¼ inches by 24 inches (22 inches by 28 inches framed in custom black frame)
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ― Rumi
Prompt # 3 from @illustrious.belle’s#mothsandmushrooms witchtober challenge list, luna moth and indigo lactarius. This one started as a 30-min sprint study of a Leopold Carl Muller painting, one of five portraits he painted of a young Egyptian woman named Nasleh. I quite liked how it came out so I worked on it a bunch more and turned it into my witchtober for…October 14th. I’ll finish them all by the end of November, I swear!
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ― Rumi
After the still life spiel, I started doing studies of master paintings, self portraits, and trying to be a little more experimental, changing the subjects so they were more ‘me’ and less just ‘learning’.
