nspired by my recent interview with Midwest man-in-black Steven Posch focusing on my illustration “Lord of the Beasts“, I had a sudden and very strong urge to re-work the five year old piece in my current black and white style. At first I intended to simply redo it as more bad-ass and less cute than the original illustration, but a completely new piece surfaced instead and he became more of a “Witch Father” than the previous “Lord of the Beasts”.
Using only India ink on watercolour paper, the Witch Father appeared with his familiar spirits and his magical Pictish and Slavic inspired-tattoos. In one hand he holds the serpent and in the other the mandragora. He is guardian of the wild, master of plants and animals, and wise in the ways of magic – the bear-faced, horn-crowned Lord of the Wild Wood.
Prints are now available in the shop and I will soon be ordering black t-shirts to be printed with the design as well. It takes two weeks for the screenprinter to make and deliver the shirts so keep your eyes on the shop in the middle of March.
