04/24/2026
This continues to be one of my favorite projects, helps that I love getting to spend time with my brother-in-law whom I don't get to see as often as I would like! This is Mixcoatl, the Aztec personification of the milky way. This is based on an ancient relief carving on a vessel.
The first picture is healed with fresh white highlights, the second is healed up before the highlights (thusly it is unshaven). You would not believe that this was about 8-10 different bite-sized sessions. He is a busy guy so we cut it down into smaller sessions after the longest first session was mapping it all out/creating a semi permanent stencil in gray and blocking off the blacks. I am so happy that this healed so consistently, you cannot tell that it was all those sessions, sometimes just a few square inches at a time getting fully shaded, session to session.
Amazingly this is not the end of this piece! We have more to do so stay tuned!