Crashbox

More drawings from class. The wave was a project that had to be based on the Golden Mean, or in this case, the Pythagorean Spiral; medium is pen and colored pencil. I picked the smoking geisha from a National Geographic article because the caption next to the picture says that smoking was very fashionable in the Edo Period in Japan, despite all manner of anti-smoking pressure from the Shoguns---I found this way too entertaining, and I love old Japanese art anyway---'There is nothing new under the sun' and all that... This is only my second attempt at painting, which was a requirement for this project, and it is done in acrylic. Painting is hard. I enjoyed the challenge, but it was a very intense and stressful operation...