Drawings by Lajos Kozma (1909)
Title: Gherasim Luca
via Book Graphics
Will 50 Watts
Drawings by Lajos Kozma (1909)
Title: Gherasim Luca
via Book Graphics
Will 50 Watts
The title page of the Poly-Olbion, an epic topographical poem written by Michael Drayton and published in 1612.
Written in iambic hexameter, the thirty songs in Drayton’s book describe all of the counties of 17th Century England and Wales. Although he intended to add a third volume to the work, Drayton never did get around to covering Scotland.
Something I was working on last August when I was putting together new pictures for the Cthulhu calendar, I’d actually forgotten about this until this week. The idea was to do something that was more of an abstract design than the rest of the art; having got this far I was undecided whether I wanted to try and incorporate the labyrinth shape into a larger picture. With time running out and nothing resolved I ended up using the Keep Calm Cthulhu design which, looking back, I feel this alone could easily have replaced. (They both share the same Cthulhu glyph.) As it is I may make this one available as another CafePress design since it’s more suited to T-shirts and things. If it needs a justification then consider the story of The Call of Cthulhu as a labyrinthine investigation which reveals Cthulhu dreaming at its centre.
I ought to have mentioned this last week since a plan of the lost labyrinth of Versailles appears in the William Henry Matthews book. The labyrinth was completed for Louis XIV in 1677, and is unusual for being a series of paths without a central focus, and also a very ornamental affair containing thirty-nine fountains with accompanying statuary which depicted the animals from Aesop’s fables. The latter were a suggestion of Charles Perrault from whose Labyrinte de Versailles (1677) these illustrations are taken. The etchings are by Sébastian Le Clerc whose map shows the route that visitors would have taken in order to visit each fountain in turn. The book may be browsed here or downloaded here.
”I’m a Fan”
The name of this piece was inspired by a supporter who is a fan of my artwork 🙂
Graphite pencils and Black coloured pencil on Acid free sketching paper
8 x 11 inches
By Kelvin Okafor
http://2headedsnake.tumblr.com/post/41906492078
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 09:01PM.
http://otakugangsta.com/post/41909883399
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 09:42PM.