Saturday, December 15, 2007

Sometimes the boundary between drawing and painting can get a bit blurred. This was drawn in ultramarine watersoluble pencil and thin washes as layers applied afterwards.

There are dozens of headless and limbless statues lying about at ancient sites in the eastern Mediterranean. Its hardly surprising when we look at Greek history over the last two of three thousand years. What with the Phonecians, then the Medes and Persians, the Peloponesian wars to say nothing of the iconoclastic elements of later religious zealots. But the fragments that are extant make for interesting drawings. They've certainly given me an ongoing project to work on.

2 comments:

James Higham said...

Yes, they really did have considerable trouble keeping all their limbs together over the years.

sunshine said...

Norman -- I'm an American devotee of Wifey. I'm also a clothing designer and producer; and as such am very appreciative of your fascination with fabric and water. You seem, as I do, to find a good deal of similarity in the patternings their fluidity produces. Thank you for your lovely drawings! Sunshine