The Human Canvas - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Or in this case,

Barbed wire. We'll come back to that.

Meantime - let's welcome back Lenore.

 

She started with another name, used before

Then we started talking about that Raven

That Raven rapping, tapping, at my door

With many a reference... to that lost Lenore.

 

Okay.

That's how THAT came about.

So - back to this evening.

 

The first session

I did with Lenore got her stopped at airport security.

Okay. Maybe not REALLY, but it was rather innocent compared to what we got going this night.

 

 

 We had talked (a lot) about

costume ideas. I knew we were gonna be

going Goth, but the end result was a surprise

for me. I mean - really, a surprise. While I knew

about SOME things (corset, stockings, boots...) she

holed-up in front of a mirror behind closed doors, taking

care of makeup, jewelry, and colorful hair extensions!

 

These colors,

I think, influenced the colors for the serpent.

This was the first piece of the night.

 

After that, a Phoenix-feather.

Or, at least, a first stab at such a notion.

What I think we got though, was a feather with

flames coming off of it. This - as opposed to

a feather becoming fire.

 

Anyway... I'll be exploring this again.

 

I was recently

complaining to someone

about how difficult it is to draw roses.

While I was demonstrating the difficult aspects of it,

I realized instead how easy roses are to draw.

 

 

Easier than thinking

of something thoughtful to write on a birthday card.

 

 

I've been enjoying

drawing flowers, among other things,
during recent Human Canvas sessions.

Flowers, fish... anything serpentine... Or anything that allows me to play with blending of colors.

 

 

Even subtle blends - allowing

for just a change in tone, or depth.

This rose was to mimic, to a certain extent,

a tattoo that appears briefly during the opening

credits to Sons of Anarchy...

 

With barbed-wire taking the place of the stem.

 

 

So, zooming out then...

 

...And trying to work out

something that showed all three pieces

from this night.

 

And something kinda funny...

During the photo sessions that accompanied

the Human Canvas sessions, I noticed what I thought

was a reoccuring exploration of a kind of coy look...

...hand to mouth, a little bit open...

 

Turns out she was just

adjusting some of the afore-mentioned jewelry.

 

But really...
The drawings, the outfit and makeup...
This was all in preparation for some night-time
photography in a nearby
orange grove.
 

 

And THAT'S where
some REALLY cool stuff happened.

We'll be seeing that soon!

Sorry to have been away.