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Lizards

A depiction of lizards (and dragons) in an assortment of media

Spanning the last forty years in chronological order

With examples of woodcarvings, batik on cloth, watercolor, woodprint, foam, steel, paper, oil painting, leather and resin.


           
first woodcarving  

Lizard woodcarving

Made of redwood when I was 19 years old

6" x 15"

circa 1967

  Eden  

Adam and Eve, detail

Batik, showing the snake offering the apple

42" x 30"

circa 1972

           
woodprint  

Megalosaur

A woodprint made in a class of a lizard-like god

9" x 12"

circa 1974

  sauricon drinking  

Sauricon Drinking

Watercolor, illustration from "Sauricon", an unfinished book

circa 1975

           
sauricon running  

Sauricon Running

Watercolor, illustration from "Sauricon", an unfinished book

6" x 4"

circa 1975

  puppet  

Dragon Puppet

Urethane foam, shaped with scissors

circa 1980

           
wood dragon  

Dragon, detail

Western Red Cedar, bandsawn, shaped, and assembled

54" x 60"

1982

  metal  

Garden Gate decoration

Steel, designed to keep deer from running through the gate

circa 1995

           
patio gate  

Patio Gateway, detail

Woodcarving

circa 1997

  viking  

Patio Gateway, detail

Bandsawn wood, inspired by Vikingsholm at Lake Tahoe

circa 1997

gate design

Design for Garden Gate

Pen and ink

circa 1997

ogre

The Ogre Meets the Dragons, detail

Resin, silk and leather

1998

           
rotojar

Dragon Jar

Rotocast resin, hollow

Removable head is jar lid

circa 2002

  glass  

Fused Glass Bowl on Dragon Legs

Glass and resin

2004

           
tree lizard  

Tree Lizard

Laser cut paper

6" x 8"

2005

  capital  

Lizard Head Capital

Resin, capitals for the garden fenceposts

2005

           
tiles  

Horned Toad Backsplash

Polyester tiles, based on a pastel drawing by Jill Banwell

2006

  cap  

Fantasy Viking Cap, detail

Pigskin handstitched with painted dragons

2006

           
horny toad  

Horny Toad

45° reflection ambigram, computer graphic

2007

  oil painting  

Lizard on Rock

Oil paints over aniline dyes on masonite

16" x 20"

2007

           

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© Tom Banwell 2007