Two original pistols from World War One. They could have faced each other in combat on a battlefield, now meeting in peacetime(ish) one hundred years later on a table in Shropshire, while I drew them with a bamboo dip-pen. A German officer’s Luger automatic, and an English officer’s Webley revolver. Very different guns to handle; the Luger is mechanically sophisticated, light, well balanced, while the Webley’s basic, heavy, and tips forward. But both lethal, and now out off action.
Other guns drawn over the years in various museums and collections…
Every machine is builded for kill another human being….is so difficult to me – psycological speaking – draw them….
I’m always interested to draw them, partly because I spent so many years of my childhood playing with toy guns. But to handle them is very odd, the compressed power they contain…