Title: Bastard Sapling Album Cover
Medium: Pen and Ink
Size: 10"x10"
Date: 2014
About the Artist: Shaun Beaudry, A.K.A. "Mister Beaudry", is an illustrator from Detroit, Michigan, currently residing in historic Savannah, Ga.. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His work tends reflect the natural world, isolation, and the macabre.
Statement: "Beaudry's paintings and illustrations are highly focused on the natural world, isolation, and cyclical imagery. Lavishly detailed, his work shows a painstaking level of craftsmanship reminiscent European woodcuts, namely the engravings of Albrecht Durer. His mysterious and hauntingly beautiful illustrations bring the timeless motifs of life and death to the modern aesthetic, and rich occult symbolism to a new audience." -from Beaudry's website
About the Work/Connections: "This drawing was heavily influenced by the work of Zdzislaw Beksinski."- from Beuadry's website
Beksinksi's work often features death and has a post apocalyptic feel to it, and I can see how Beaudry was influenced here. To me, this piece is like the grim reaper or angel of death out searching for lost souls with his own soulless hell hound. There is a strong depiction of death and the afterlife without bodies and gore spread throughout the work. The high contrast and feature-less faces add the the macabre feel.
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