The legacy of crows,

this haunting vanity of despair.

 

 

 

Woodless graphite pencil on 140 lb cold press watercolor paper, with digital overpainting.

Title: 'The vanity of despair.'

 

 

 

 

Photographic reference used for the portraiture.

An untitled dagguerrotype of a slave

The names of neither the man or the photographer have ever been discovered.