Showing posts with label styx. Show all posts
Showing posts with label styx. Show all posts

Saturday, March 24, 2012

charon awaits on the styx (miscellaneous 3)

continuing in this vein...connecting to greek mythology (see charon on wikipedia)

charon awaits on the styx ~ frank waaldijk
charon awaits on the styx (own work, 2011, 30 x 61 cm, click on the image for an enlargement)

(in original greek sources, the river acheron is the river across which charon ferries the dead, but the styx has taken that place in popular perception...and in mine...)

this is also a widely depicted theme in western art history. let me give an example of one of gustave doré's etchings which he made to illustrate dante's divina commedia:

charon herds the sinners onto his boat ~ gustave doré
gustave doré, charon herds the sinners onto his boat (click on the image for an enlargement)

charon on his boat ~ gustave doré
gustave doré, charon on his boat (click on the image for an enlargement)

Monday, July 12, 2010

some drawings of this year 1

i'm always drawing. but drawing remains an undervalued art form. invariably, for exhibitions, paintings and sculptures are favoured. still, drawing to me is like poetry, and it is definitely a continuous source which pours over to painting. enough said, i'm just going to put up some pictures. (you can click on them for larger images.).

by the way, i invariably find drawings to be difficult to photograph well, my cameras nor my scanner are able to handle the contrasts and subtle whites and tonings that typically occur in a drawing. so although i put in quite some effort, the result is not as accurate as i would like it to be.

la gomera, drawing, own work
la gomera, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 20 x 30 cm, click on the image for an enlargement).

vision of st. francis, drawing, own work
vision of st. francis, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 20 x 30 cm, click on the image for an enlargement).

i found my love in a corner, drawing, own work
i found my love in a corner, waiting -though we did not know it at the time- for me, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 40 x 30 cm, click on the image for an enlargement).

here i stand head in hands, drawing, own work
here i stand, head in hands, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 30 x 38 cm, click on the image for an enlargement).

taking care of the psychiatric patient 1, drawing, own work
taking care of the psychiatric patient 1, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 30 x 40 cm, click on the image for an enlargement, i'm not satisfied with this reproduction's colours).

taking care of the psychiatric patient 2, drawing, own work
taking care of the psychiatric patient 2, mixed media on paper(own work 2010, 30 x 40 cm, click on the image for an enlargement, i'm not satisfied with this reproduction's colours).

the false guru and his Divine Energy, drawing, own work 2010)
the false guru and his Divine Energy, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 15 x 10 cm, click on the image for an enlargement).

self-portrait as you crying over me, drawing, own work
self-portrait as you, crying over me, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 30 x 40 cm, click on the image for an enlargement).

self-portrait cruising down the styx, drawing, own work
self-portrait cruising down the styx, mixed media on paper (own work 2010, 30 x 40 cm, click on the image for an enlargement).