First Thing In The Morning,

it took me some time to work out what I was looking at,

 this incredible image was drawn by Ester Roi who was born and raised in Vicenza, Italy, 35 miles west of Venice, her images are made so stunning by her use of her invention,

 the Icarus Drawing Board using hot wax it allows you to draw through layers,

the drawing board is a portable board featuring two working zones, a warm zone and a cool zone, the heated portion of the board is an area of about 8”x 12” for the 2026 model and 6"x 9" for the 1420 model, all around this area and on the cool zone of the board the tempered glass remains at near room temperature, in general, the warm zone is used for mixing pigments, blending, burnishing and reworking, the cool zone is used for line drawing, layering, detailing and finishing touches,

by shifting the artwork between the two zones, the artist can take full advantage of the intrinsic properties of wax-based media (coloured pencils, colour sticks, artist crayons, oil pastels, etc.), what a great artist and a neat invention.