Black ground, and a hat scraped into it in white.
That is the whole painting. No face, no body to speak of, just the silhouette everybody already has filed away, and the name underneath in case you needed it. But I know that you did not.
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.
18 × 24 in · Latex, oil stick and coffee on watercolor paper · 2026
Black ground, and a hat scraped into it in white.
That is the whole painting. No face, no body to speak of, just the silhouette everybody already has filed away, and the name underneath in case you needed it. But I know that you did not.
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.
18 × 24 in · Latex, oil stick and coffee on watercolor paper · 2026
