Amok! 2009, pencil

One of my Top Five pieces I’ve ever done. . let alone favorite K/S pieces.

from 2009: Recently I took a Life Drawing Class at my local college. About a month ago the professor handed out the final assignment. One of the options was to take a master work and to contemporize it somehow.

I am a huge fan of Isabel Samaras, and I’ve always been in love with Edouard Manet’s Olympia.

So, I went to my professor armed with Samaras’ book Tender Hooks, a printout of Olympia and a print out of Kirk and Spock…