Saturday Double Feature

Parliamentary Democracy; India ink & watercolor lampblack wash on bristol board

Editorial cartoons don't necessarily have to be about current events. Discussions of general topics (i.e. war, peace, commerce, equality, &c.) can be just as compelling, as they touch on/speak to deeper, less context-sensitive understandings and agreements. It follows that said cartoons tend to be more enduring.

Texas v. Reason; India ink & watercolor lampblack wash on bristol board

But a good ol' fashioned cartoon about contemporary issues is just as entertaining.

On an unrelated note, I'm beginning to find wash painting genuinely endearing. I'd still use a tablet for anything involving color, but nothing beats physical media when it comes to control and spontaneity--just think of all the time it'd have taken me to reproduce those dry brush effects in Photoshop!