Aging Trash

"I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? [...] And I must confess that this, this maniacal curiosity or call it what you will, [...] leads me into the open countryside, away from human creation. And maybe it will lead me away from my son, who is under the spell of all things human."

Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat

Gabrielle was such an interesting character in the books, so I wanted to do a full portrait of her book version in a similar style to my Armand portrait. I did use Jennifer Ehle as a reference for the initial sketch, but in tracing my own sketch onto the watercolour paper and then the whole colouring process, it changed quite a bit from the reference.

how the fuck did we get here? jade, you never left.

i can't do it anymore. ellis, i can't! i'm falling apart!

SARAH AFFUL as Merrick Mayfair