A black hat dead center, a magenta flare thrown off the shoulder like a plume, and a bank of yellow and blue at the bottom with three stars sunk into it.
As an Airman in the USAF, one of the earliest acronyms we learned was: Be My Little General, which stood for: Brigadier General (one star), Major General (two stars), Lieutenant General (three stars), and General (four stars).
Small man, large hat, a great deal of ceremony. The composition puts him exactly where he would have wanted to be put.
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 black hat dead center, a magenta flare thrown off the shoulder like a plume, and a bank of yellow and blue at the bottom with three stars sunk into it.
As an Airman in the USAF, one of the earliest acronyms we learned was: Be My Little General, which stood for: Brigadier General (one star), Major General (two stars), Lieutenant General (three stars), and General (four stars).
Small man, large hat, a great deal of ceremony. The composition puts him exactly where he would have wanted to be put.
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
