Mummy Afire Mixed media, ink and digital;

Quite awhile back, when I was first getting back into inking, I created an ink based on the Im-Ho-Tep/Mummy character from the 1932 film version of The Mummy (see it here). The idea with that one was to work from a photo, something I hadn’t done much (if ever), to recreate the iconic face of […]

Boris Karloff’s character from The Mummy (1932), ink, 5″ x 7″ on 140 lb. Cold Press.

I think what I really wanted out of this, and indeed out of all of the still life/portrait/from-a-photo inks that I've been doing

I've run across a number of Elihu Vedder's pieces before, and this one is one of my favorites. This is Vedder's, The Questioner of the Sphinx, a piece that for me is always inspiring.