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A pale blue ground gone grey and worn, with the figure coming through it like something surfacing rather than something painted on.
Red down low, and the shape above it barely holding together. This is the Duke after the torch has had its turn, which is closer to how a legend actually ages.
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
A pale blue ground gone grey and worn, with the figure coming through it like something surfacing rather than something painted on.
Red down low, and the shape above it barely holding together. This is the Duke after the torch has had its turn, which is closer to how a legend actually ages.
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
