Aerie Warrior Queen

This project was originally done in 2009 with pencil, ink and acrylic paint using two separate black-art papers. The background consisted of the rendering of a nearly full-size warrior queen and the sky. The foreground was a painted cut-out of an eggshell nest.

The original idea behind this old-school technique was to give some dimension between the queen and her nest. Years later, I revisited this work and used digital photo editing tools to enhance the painting into the sinister image that you now see.