Up In Smoke

Up In Smoke
—May 2005
I got an email from friend and great satirist, Steve Brodner, asking me if I could illustrate a Bush/Nero image for a page in The Nation that he art directs called "Comics Nation". I agreed of course and asked Steve if he was OK if i experimented with technique on this one. He gave me his blessing and I went to work using red conte, charcoal, and acrylic washes. I had just seen a fabulous Rubens drawing exhibition and he had this wonderful way of using the red chalk for the nose and lips. I thought that technique might work for this Bush portrait.

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	Up In Smoke —May 2005 I got an email from friend and great satirist, Steve Brodner, asking me if I could illustrate a Bush/Nero image for a page in The Nation that he art directs called "Comics Nation". I agreed of course and asked Steve if he was OK if i experimented with technique on this one. He gave me his blessing and I went to work using red conte, charcoal, and acrylic washes. I had just seen a fabulous Rubens drawing exhibition and he had this wonderful way of using the red chalk for the nose and lips. I thought that technique might work for this Bush portrait. (click on painting to enlarge)