12/04/2006

Lost Painting: Dragon Skin

This painting's texture was too rough (partly because it was on canvas instead of the smooth panel I normally used) and hard to see.  But I kept it around for years because of its strange look, like a close-up of dragon skin.

I would pull it out every so often and admire its unapologetic ugliness.  "I am what I am" it would say, "now let me return to my cave, and leave me alone."

The painting was 60 by 48 inches.