Almost Donna Darkwolf. I Painted her for 40 Years. Then I Met Her. And Married Her

As an artist - I am free to fantasize and create my own World. There were women in many of my paintings. They were all different.
Yet there was one who appeared constantly, and whether by accident or subliminal process this imperious / imperial visage would emerge from the brush strokes.

The patrician, aquiline nose, the high arching brows, the well defined cheek-bones all describing a woman of royalty.
Her slightly up-turned Arabic eyes, sometimes, with a dreamy look to them, others with a fixed gaze on the viewer.

Sometimes she appears distant and aloof, other times provocative

And her Mouth!? What a Mouth...
This is a mouth of secret, hidden mirth.
The corners are always just another muscle twitch away from a little smile.
Secret.
Inward.
People who talk about the Mona Lisa smile, don’t know anything...
The Cherub Cat is only a term in the Angel Tiger.
They don’t know anything – until they have seen this mouth.
The lips being what some fashion artists refer to as “bee-stung”.
A mouth that can lift at one corner, with a knowing, side-glanced smile… in a fashion I have not often seen repeated.
A mouth that can make a small moue of disappointment,
That will cause any man to change his mind about whatever it was he had done.
Or was about to do. Or wouldn’t do.

The mouth of Hotly Promised surrender, The Mouth of Utter Desire.
The mouth of Scintillating Sarcasm and Dire Wrath.
The Mouth of Saintly Benediction
And the Voice of All Dark Fears Born.
The Mouth of Love’s Love, of Love.

That Mouth!

Donna Darkwolf Greets the Sea

2014. A waterpainting of the real Donna Darkwolf at Milnerton Beach

The Bewitching Donna Darkwolf

2011. For Donna's auto-biography: “The Eternal Kiss of the The Witch and The Soldier”
This is not a painting. It is a manipulated photograph made to look like a painting - done at the request of One Who May Not Be Argued With - kind of thing.

Lady in Black

1971. Uriah Heep releases their album "Salisbury".
Lady in Black is the fourth track of the Album.
A philosophical examination that informs us that evil cannot be overcome by evil itself.
In a year, I will be a on a gunship, in a bush war, in a country no one even remembers.
I imagined, at the time I did this painting, being a medieval knight, fighting for his "lady". My Lady.
And, being that man left on the battle field.

Donna Darkwolf on Starry Nights

2014. Portrait for my shiny wife.
A wedding gift. Watercolor and ink

Maria Juanita

1977. A Marijuana Advert. What dope-smoking hippies dream up while they are stoned.
E-mail me if you want a Print-Ready File. 30 x 40 CM.

Goat-Footed Women

1981. For my Collection. I am a Capricorn. A Goat.
This "explains" HER.
I was born 1 1 52. She - 24 2 62.
Ten years, one month later

Hearts Empire

1982. Twenty years after Donna was born.
A Self-Promo Piece which I still have.

Her Garden Galaxy

1984. I could always tell in my dreams if she was happy or sad - never imagining that one day I wold be looking at the reality of my Donna Cara Bella.

Sofia

1986. I imagined a drink that TASTED like Donna.
She looks like Sophia Lauren... SO...

Camille - The Pretty Witch

1977. 30 years before I met Donna. There was someone - another Witch almost like. . .
Read the story

Isis - Guardian at the Ishtar Gate

1971. Before I went into the Army. I was reading a history book about Isis and the Gate of Ishtar.

La Diabola del Dormas

1983. The she-devil in my sleep.

Pink 1959 Cadillac Eldorado

1970. A Promotional Work-piece for my Portfolio, as I set out as a Free-lance Illustrator. I was 17.
Just finishing high school. A face I saw so many times in my dreams.

The Witch in The Book

1982. 'Donna Rising out The Book of Spells'.
Once you turn the Page. Her Dance Starts
There is no stopping her. She has ARRIVED.

The Witch and The Soldier

I painted this in 1974. Donna was just Twelve.
I had just come out of the Army.