Image Hoard: Always & Never

Book cover of Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy

This fantastic cover caught my eye.  I'm intrigued by the melodramatic werewolf novel that it represents as well.  It has very mixed reviews but it's being made into a series by Netflix and I think it might be worth a read.  I tend to judge books by their covers.

Above and below unknown images

These were pulled from an excellent, but sometimes disturbing blog of found images by Miron.

Above and below by Fin-DAC

Beautiful urban art, tightly controlled with a touch of chaos.  I think he does it all with spray paint.

Totem 2012 by Niark1

Crazy brilliant image by Parisian Designer/Illustrator Niark1.

Toujours et Jamais (Always & Never) by Pierre-Eugene-Emile Hébert

Hébert was a sculptor in Paris who had an unremarkable career aside from this piece in terracotta, which caught Baudelaire's eye at the 1859 Salon and remains a sensation on Tumblr.  It now lives in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Life Drawing

Hour-long pose

Last week I joined my mum and her 'polite drawing society' for a life drawing session.  Nothing weird about that: it's Art.  

I caught the train to Windsor and we slipped through a side door in the snack kiosk into a pub.  Its daytime-emptiness peppered with people sketching; all focused on Paul, the model.  It was a good chance for me to crack out the quink and work on a slightly larger scale than usual.  For the 1 hour pose I taped 2 pieces of A3 together (you can see the join).  

I'm quite pleased with how they came out.  I particularly like the area of focus in the larger drawing.  Marks out of 10?

Warm-up drawing