Day one hundred and seventy-six: I usually watch murder mysteries on TV when I make my sketch of the day. Last night there was an angel of death in one of the stories. Perhaps the idea planted itself in my subconscious only to be evoked by my pencil this afternoon. Or maybe it was more recollection of Emil Bernard’s La Fin de Satan imagery. It beats me. What I was thinking about while working on this picture was how to layer dark colors and create black on black forms. It was fun to create white shapes (the bones) and then stripe fine black lines over them so that the harbinger seems to emerge out of darkness.
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