#frederick carter

[charnel-grounds]

Frederick Carter (1883–1967), “The Dragon of the Alchemists”

engraved on wood by W.M. Quick, 1936

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[cosmonautroger]

Frederick Carter, The Dragon Of The Alchemists, 1936

[alephskoteinos]

The objective understanding, as we see, has to be attacked by the artist and a subconscious method, for correction of conscious visual accuracy, must be used. No amount of visual skill and consciousness of error will produce a good drawing. A recent book on drawing by a well-known painter is a case in point; there the examples of masters of draughtsmanship may be compared with the painter-author's own, side by side, and the futility of mere skill and interest examined. Therefore to proceed further, it is neccesary to dispose of the “subject” in art also (that is to say the subject in the illustrative or complex sense). Thus to clear the mind of inessentials permits through a clear and transparent medium, without prepossessions of any kind, the most definite and simple forms and ideas to attain expression.

- Austin Osman Spare and Frederick Carter, Automatic Drawing (emphasis in bold is my own)

[aioleis]

Frederick Carter (1883–1967), “The Dragon of the Alchemists” engraved on wood by W.M. Quick, 1936

[lafaebrique]

"The Balance" by Frederick Carter, 1918.

[mysterium-solis]

Magical Invocation by Frederick Carter, illustration for Manfred: A Tragedy by Lord Byron (1929 edition)

[o-fantome]

@t-tilly-tilghman, @pr0fess0r-b1tch and my OCs all together at Yorktown. (Freddy is there in spirit, literally.) My longest ever drawing so far: 15 hours and 18 minutes in total. (Background is ‘Surrender of Lord Cornwallis’ by John Trumbull)

Left to right: Ezra Bevington (Mary and Jack’s) Kathrine Farley (Mary’s), Johnathan Fisher (Jack’s), Benjamin McDay (mine), Timothy Knight (mine), Frederick Carter (mine)

[ducissatenebrarum]

The Balance 1918 

 Frederick Carter