Category: folklore
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Foliate Heads or the Green Man?: Subjects that Fascinate Me, Pt. 2

In my last post I outlined the story of how in my teen years my love for the DC comic book character Swamp Thing nurtured a fascination with the English folkloric Green Man. This fascination naturally lead me to a discovery of “Foliate Head” carvings in medieval English architecture.
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“Draw something from your mind”: Subjects that Fascinate Me, Pt. 1

The Subjects that Fascinate page on my art website has changed little over the past few of years. The page was never meant to be an ongoing and exhaustive listing of things that “fascinate” me but only a sample of a few subjects that have seized my attention and inspired…