Blue and Orange Head with Cracked Scales Painting - Open Mouth Slightly Open - Dragon Edition

The visual

The dragon's head occupies the entire space, presented in profile, mouth open releasing an incandescent breath. The steel blue scales cover the skull and blend with touches ofbright orange and red that seem to surge from beneath the surface, like internal lava. The dark eye, circled with black, contrasts with the chalky whiteness of the fangs and snout. The composition plays on a marked diagonal, from the snout projected to the right to the wispy mane in the upper left. Splashes of orange paint on a white background evoke suspended flames. The pictorial treatment mixes digital and pictorial texture, with visible impasto on the scales that give relief. The whole exudes a tension between the cold mineral and the hot incandescent.