Dragon- Yamata no Orochi

The red hounds on the black, sky chariot’ black cloud of the Thunder Hag and the spear of Conall Curlew rattle that I am Clan Morrison. The alcohol, pastel stain on heavy paper and the humanity created by chalk sing that I am an artist. Dragons are a main stay of most mythologies. Christianity has them both as the animorph of evil and also the animal that St. George killed in Libya. The Celt viewed dragons and wise creatures. The main Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl was a dragon. One should not forget the girl with the dragon tattoo. The discoverer of dinosaurs considered them to be the same as dragons. My sister use to have beagle.

The name of this piece is Yamata_no_Orochi named after the dragon which protected Buddha under the Bo Tree, but is normally depicted with eight heads. Japan honors the creator as a kami, one of the four divine beasts calling it ryū or tatsu. Originally I named the piece Wood Dragon. Ironically the proper of Japanese maple is dragon wood.The technich to accomplish the idea of scales is by skipping in on stroke.  It is 8.5” x 11,” drawn with Sumie and completed recently.

 The name of this piece is Bench,  is 12” x 18” and drawn with Sumi-e and ink June 2016. The picture was drawn at an exclusive park the last day it was open for the season. Ironically, I was worried it would rain momentarily. The phrase in Japanese is “the voice of autumn” or “the wind” as fall is coming. It is on the empty backdrop of a pond, because school is started. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my work email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com to order.