Rapt Wolf Drum 22 inches

This design was great fun for me. I really wanted a wolf but not an ordinary formline wolf. For about two weeks this wolf worked in me, sliding around my mind, sometimes propping his chin on my shoulder, but only bits of him exposed at a time, and I kept thinking how in the world am I going to put him together in a congruent image. One morning I woke up knowing this wolf, like most in the wild, is a creature of the shadows, one who tries to hide himself, and the idea of doing him in reverse negative (painting the space that ordinarily would be unpainted) would give him the illusion he needed that he was hidden. When I got through with the drum I knew he was happy with the result: he is tightly coiled in the shadows with a little glint in his eye, fully intent upon something only he can see and which we can only imagine.

22″ drum
leather, pigment