Friday, July 29, 2011

I've never actually seen snow before.


Melancholy
Acrylic on canvas
24" x 18"
2011

Now we got #3 here, the moody humor. And it's quite fitting, since painting mulch is... Yeah. Let's not mention such things.

Melancholy is probably the most well known of the humors. From Albrecht Durer's etching, to the Smashing Pumpkins turning the word into a fun album title, people seem to relate to it. Melancholy comes from a person producing black bile more than anything else, from the gall bladder. Its element is earth, and the qualities are cold and dry.

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