The Old Tower

You obviously live in an extremely impressive house Robert, what a shame this part of it had to be taken down, lovely Charcoal work and super texture

Great drawing Robert, you do houses so well,

Lovely drawing.

Love the linework and the tones, Robert. With loads of atmosphere too. Super!

Wonderful building which you have depicted extremely well in the difficult medium of charcoal. I have used charcoal before but needed hosing down afterwards as I made such a mess.

Yes, lovely drawing.

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was--but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasureable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible."

Ah ha - it may not surprise you to learn that I've read all the works of Edgar Allan, and indeed watched all the films, especially those with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff (and Karl Malden; and the wondrous Vincent Price) based upon his stories. Now hasten ye to my other paintings and drawings of Dream House, and enter the world of horrendous nightmare - modern horror tends to be nauseatingly specific; I much prefer implication,impression, hint, and a glimpse of the shape behind the curtain. The more obvious, the less terrifying: you can always thump the obvious right in the mush. If a few of his victims had done the same to Anthony Hopkins, what terrors could he have exercised? It's hard to look menacing when your teeth have been kicked right down your throat............

Hello Robert, just read your thread on the forum regarding Monestial blue.....have you compared it to Manganese blue? Hope this helps your search.