Fun fact: Apple’s Photos recognised this as art alright, and promptly suggested it might be James Ensor’s Chinoiserie: A Chinese Demon Nice to have the robots confuse me with a big artist like that. Maybe I should start sitting in museums and draw statues there after all, seems they think it’s time to drop my training wheels and call myself a fully-fledged artist, eh?

I’ve just read Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, and it’s been a hot minute since my secondary school days with Greek and Latin when read long sections of the original Illiad and Oddysey (yep, in ancient Greek, good fun!) I also need to make some time to (belatedly!) dive into Patrick Lateur’s Dutch translation Illias: Wrok in Troje. (After he spent 2 years acquainting us with the finer points of Greek and Roman literature and culture, I owe him that much!) It feels a bit like coming home after a long detour into Chinese history, to be back with the ancient Greeks. Here’s some work from my own “Antiquity” era when I spent time copying images from my textbooks. More next week!

I am struck by how I forgot to outline his feet in ink, and I must have been fascinated by the little lightbulb that hung over the altar because it is rather prominent…

What’s your oldest drawing you’re prepared to share with the world? I think I have one older still, but I need to dig it out! Be patient, check back for another Throwback Thursday and you may be lucky yet!