Teal ground worked down to nearly nothing, a wide brim across the middle, and HOMBRE burned into the bottom of the sheet.
The face under the hat is a smear and a suggestion. That is usually all anybody got, and usually all they needed.
How these are made. Latex lays the ground. The mark goes down in oil stick, then gets worked over with an old brush still carrying dried oil and chunks of whatever it was used for last, dragging the image apart and pulling pieces of it back off. Then a blow torch. The oil stick burns and dries and leaves a barnacled crust behind. What is left is a mark that looks like it has been out in the weather for a hundred years.
14 × 17 in · Latex, oil stick and coffee on watercolor paper · 2026
Teal ground worked down to nearly nothing, a wide brim across the middle, and HOMBRE burned into the bottom of the sheet.
The face under the hat is a smear and a suggestion. That is usually all anybody got, and usually all they needed.
How these are made. Latex lays the ground. The mark goes down in oil stick, then gets worked over with an old brush still carrying dried oil and chunks of whatever it was used for last, dragging the image apart and pulling pieces of it back off. Then a blow torch. The oil stick burns and dries and leaves a barnacled crust behind. What is left is a mark that looks like it has been out in the weather for a hundred years.
14 × 17 in · Latex, oil stick and coffee on watercolor paper · 2026
