I will let you on a secret. If you want to draw a remarkable still life, imagine that an inanimate object has a personality and than draw it as if you are having a conversation. I have been watching the Mattias Inks and noticed that he plays on this paradox. Like the watercolor that I republished here is a heavy, dense stone that floats. And now this remarkable delicate bird, ensconced into humanoid metallic rider. Human head is deliberately small while the bird has a giant beak. Small animal heads are woven into the armor.
This is an evocation of the mythological tradition that imagines half humans and half animal creatures.
Centaur in the British Museum. Photo by Lawrence OP
Minotaur above. And of course the mermaids.
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