Process and Final illustrations done for the Sarasota Chalk Festival.

War causes pain and distortion. World War One produced many wounded soldiers. Many documented photographs showed very alive soldiers with the worst wounds ever imagined. Their very face was distorted to the point of no possible recognition. These victims had a formless face.
Monotypes are a challenging medium to create representational form. Taking this handicap into consideration, I used it as an opportunity to create portraits of these wounded soldiers. The intent was to produce the most formless, abstract shapes to create something that had an implication of a “face”. There were originally thirty monotypes created. Only these few survived.