Wax pastels.

Mixed media; ink washed sky, oil pastel detail, broken CD windows & moon, fairy light stars.

Inspired by first paragraph describing the city of Gormenghast in Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan (first part of Gormenghast Trilogy):

"Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to ignore the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls. They sprawled over the sloping earth, each one half way over its neighbour until, held back by the castle ramparts, the innermost of these hovels laid hold on the great walls, clamping themselves thereto like limpets to a rock. These dwellings, by ancient law, were granted this chill intimacy with the stronghold that loomed above them. Over their irregular roofs would fall throughout the seasons, the shadows of time-eaten buttresses, of broken and lofty turrets, and, most enormous of all, the shadow of the Tower of Flints. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from amongst the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow."

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See images below for pictures with different lighting.

Oil pastels on brown handmade paper. (Paper not made by me).

Oil pastels on paper. A reproduction/re-intepretation of a postacard of Vincent Van Gogh's 'Reaper with Sickle (after Millet)'.

Leaf studies in oil pastels.

On the left, threads sewn on to cloth.

In the middle, a triptych style; pen and ink on the left panel, pencil crayon in the middle panel, and on the right panel, wax over oil pastels with scratched lines to reveal colours.

On the right, the original of Henri Rousseau's 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm, Suprised' (1891), from which these were reproduced/inspired.