Gargoyle

I was thinking on the drive home from work one day, if we call the females of the species gargoyles, does that make the males garguyles?

Thank you, thank you, you're too kind. I'll be here all night.

OK, seriously, enough bad jokes.

I figured, since Halloween season is upon us, I should do some paintings to celebrate my favorite holiday. This started off as a doodle in my sketchbook as an exercise to explore the analogues between the arms of a human and the wings of a bat. I'm constantly floored at the beautiful and strange pathways the basic mammalian skeleton utilizes to best take advantage of its environment.

To give it a sense of viciousness, I referenced deep sea fish for the head, and raptors for the hands and feet. It's fun to mix and match animal features to make up your own creatures.

More to come!