There Be Dragons

(36" x 36") - Acrylic Paint and Plaster on Canvas  Estimated Shipping Cost and Sales Tax are not included in the sale price!  Full color prints are available upon request. "There Be Dragons" is my second painting in the pareidolia series and arguably the most complex and challenging painting I have created thus far.   The subject matter and basic composition come from what I see in the random lines and marks I cast into plaster applied to the canvas at the beginning of the process. I had no preconceived ideas about dragons or knights or bones.  In fact, I'm not a huge fan of dragon stories or movies, much less knights in shining armor.  But I let this process of seeing order and patterns in chaos happen naturally without preferentially editing the visual cues to my liking. This "pareidolia process" involves creating a random, unintentional base painting with  layers of wet paint scrubbed into plaster fissures and depressions.  Then perhaps the most important step:  staring at the