Not Dulac

I thought you might want to know where some of the images from my home page comes from.

Many are from Edmund Dulac.

I had this book about book illustrators and his images of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales, his interpretation of The Tempest and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam and the Arabian Nights made a huge impression on me. The jewel colors, the delicacy of line . . . I liked Arthur Rackham too but his palette was not as rich.

It's why I spent a lot of money buying watercolors, pastel sticks and blocks of paper to try and paint like him. But I had no talent in that direction at all. My brother and sister did. Although their medium was this colored chalk called conte crayon. I had some mild success with charcoal but they were a bit morbid since I was copying World War 2 artists like Kerr Eby.

This picture called THE MARINE ASSAULT OF TARAWA was one I was moderately successful at reproducing. Charcoal on hard canvas panel. You can see how far I was from realizing a Dulac.