Maschera da Teatro

 Maschera da Teatro. 2009.

A collaborative piece with Gianni Purri.

The line art was done by me, with some edits from the original as well as all coloring done by Gianni.

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It's based on Aesop's fable "La Vople Davanti a una Maschera da Teatro" or The fox in front of a theater mask, in it a fox by some means gets into the store-room of a theatre, suddenly he notices a face glaring down at him and becomes very frightened; but looking more closely he finds it is only an actor's mask.
"Ah," says the Fox. " You look very fine, pity you have not got any brains."

(c) Gianni Purri and Sarah Fabian

View of the original pen and ink drawing, and a detail, done by me.

11" x 17 "
.25mm Micron Pen