This is another old piece from the spring of '09. It's an illustration assignment and a pretty straight-forward one: portrait of an author. I wanted to include this as a strong piece on it's own, and also because it got in to this last year's juried student art show.
I definitely had a lot of options, but I chose William S. Burroughs not just because I like the book Naked Lunch, but because he writes very vividly, and with a lot of imagery. It seemed like a good choice for a visual interpretation. I'm not going to go into every detail, but I will say that I'm using imagery from the book as well as Burrough's own life to show his mental state and suggest a degradation of the mind that creates as well as destroys.
Watercolor on cold press.
