Tag: Pen

  • The New King

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    Symbolism The New King is a symbolic gestalt. It continues themes I began exploring in A Sprig of Mistletoe, The Family Tree, The Hour Glass of Saturn and a few unpublished drawings. It blends alchemical and  heraldic motifs to create a feeling of nobility. This drawing is another experiment with water color. One of the…

  • A Head Full of Fungus

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    Feed your head This pen and ink drawing of a group of mushrooms growing from a skull was a very quick fun sketch. The drawing was done in Noodler’s Black Eel ink with a Pilot Metropolitan fine nib. I enjoyed experimenting with a some new textures in the background and on the mushrooms. This one…

  • The Ship of the Sun

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    The Ship of the Sun “We now return our souls to the creator,as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness.Let our chant fill the void,in order that others may know.In the land of the night,the ship of the sun,is drawn by the grateful dead.” The Grateful Dead Long before the internet was available to…