A wide flat brim cut straight across a yellow ground, the figure under it in green gone almost black, and the name scrawled along the bottom.
Lee Van Cleef, who never once played the man you were rooting for and never needed to. The hat does the acting.
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 wide flat brim cut straight across a yellow ground, the figure under it in green gone almost black, and the name scrawled along the bottom.
Lee Van Cleef, who never once played the man you were rooting for and never needed to. The hat does the acting.
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
