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Ghost of the Fleaby ~squonkhunter

Traditional Art / Paintings / Macabre & Horror

Ink painting, face done April 18, 2010, smoke completed 27 April, 2010.

The famous poet and painter William Blake was, from what history tells us, bat shit crazy. He believed he saw things from the supernatural realm, including angels who would tell him to write down certain works.
One thing he saw was what he called the ghost of a flea, which appeared to be part man, part vampire, and part reptile. Blake said that the flea actually spoke to him, saying:

"It was first intended to make me as big as a bullock; but then when it was considered from my construction, so armed—and so powerful withal, that in proportion to my bulk, (mischievous as I now am) that I should have been a too mighty destroyer; it was determined to make me—no bigger than I am."

This was just too tempting to NOT paint.

!Ravern-Caelot Sep 21, 2012

Everything is perfect: the lighting, the composition of both the head and the smoke, the forced grin of the Flea. I love your monochromatic works.

~squonkhunter Sep 21, 2012 Student General Artist

Thank you very much! I am still working with color, as monochromatic seems to be my strength.

!Ravern-Caelot Sep 21, 2012

Same here. Black and white works don't get enough love these days. It's all about color and special effects, when you can derive a lot more emotion from black and white, like the Hammer Films (Dracula, Wolf Man, etc.)

~squonkhunter Sep 22, 2012 Student General Artist

I do like color a lot. You can get some incredible moods from it, as with black and white. Switching between the two, muting the colors and such, can be just as expressive in my opinion.

!Ravern-Caelot Sep 22, 2012

Hmm, I never thought about it like that before.

~LadyAshton Apr 30, 2010

Very cool and very scary! XDDDDD
Great artwork.

~squonkhunter May 2, 2010 Student General Artist

Thanks.

~gabrielyanagihara Apr 28, 2010 Professional Digital Artist

Very cool! I like the scales!

~squonkhunter Apr 28, 2010 Student General Artist

Thanks! The original painting, "The Ghost of a Flea" done in 1819-1820, looks like this: [link]

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