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Portrait of Eternity

Kandle (Kane the Undertaker)

Illustration artwork from Windowknocker’s ‘Altar of Illusion’, the second volume in the ‘knocker collection. The characters, Tamera and her best friend, Lady Lasot discover the old masterpiece hanging in the museum art gallery and are astonished to learn that it had in fact been painted in 1689!! The 'Portrait of Eternity', featuring the Undertaker, Kane was ranked as the most popular PNT illustration of 1998. Just like the ‘Pentagram’, it found it’s way into banners, stickers, labels, and letterheads throughout the wrestling community. It was based upon the oil technique of the ‘old dutch masters’

“B-but that can’t be.” She insisted. Tamera just couldn’t believe it at all and read the date again It had to be a mistake. “It just can’t be!” 1689. ..1689?! Why ..that would mean that the Undertaker had to be two ---No, he had to be over 300 years old!”

“The wind is so discontented tonight. ..treacherous and yet so beautiful as it plays upon the sea out there. And the waves ...endlessly pushing them back onto the shores, only to hurl them onto the rocks without mercy once they’ve reached that distant goal and then to pull them swiftly away back to the black, barren depths from first they came. Oh, such a endless eternal process. Oh, such a portrait of torment without reprieve...” Altar of Illusion; 1997

Berol Prismacolor oil paint pencils, ink, and graphite; cir. 1998

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