Old Mexican Retablo on Tin of Young Jesus at Cross wall cabinet Drafting brush: 23

Drafting brush: 23

The details make them feel very special

like so much of the best Inuit art

modular in scale

the best drawings seem effortless

Old Mexican Retablo on Tin of Young Jesus at Cross wall cabinet Drafting brush: 23I'm not the best with Chrisitian iconography, but I believe this subject of this antique Mexican retablo is a young Jesus, with the cross and crown of thorns behind him foreshadowing his death, and the lily in his hand his resurrection. I really like the fact that he looks both like a baby and and old man, hovering between clouds above and below, and with the wear to the paint giving a sense of rain or tears streaming down. And the black of his gown