illiostrationes

illustration for an article about hair.

Calico Jack, Blackbeard, Anne Bonnie

working with these pictures of prisoner mugshots from the time of the USSR's civil war. the frontal and profile views of these men give a lot of things to consider, and i find each one infinitely intriguing. this is only maybe just started, theres so much i want to do with it. for one, im really pushing myself to see how far along i can aim to photo-realism, also im working thru creating a history with the surface of my paper, and the idea of fragmentation in any sort of means to create layers and history and to create a sense of the photograph, with my own little touches added in. charcoal drawing, collage layer, thin gesso layer, charcoal drawing over that. ive given up using canvas for now, i plan on utilizing panels and creating works on paper. besides... i need that canvas for my monotypes.

if i had to give this a percent of progress id say about 10%.

final re edit

wine lables

the first two are water based ink monotypes, the third is an oil based monotype. printed off of plexi onto linen canvas. i like the first two more, the soaked canvas picked up more of my mark than when i just used the oil ink, which reacted more to the denature alcohol i was using than the mark i was trying to achieve with my brush.

zombie re-edit