My Art: Inky Quill in a plague doctor mask

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

This is a painting I did today of my Original Character who is a porcupine poet named Inky Quill. Inky is an American expatriate living in Victorian London, specifically the zoo at Regent's Park. He is wearing a bright blue plague doctor mask and a green-and-pink bow tie.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

This is brilliant. Naturally he would have a blue plague doctor's mask and I think the bow-tie is spot on!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! My anxiety about world affairs surfaced in a kind of surrealist image of Inky in his plague doctor mask. The boys' paint set had some bright, spring-like colours that I wanted to use. I didn't want the harshness and somber tones of a black mask. And Inky has a weakness for dapper bow ties (when he has speaking engagements).