Evan B. Har­ris hopes to cre­ate paint­ings that appear to be made in not the 21st cen­tury, but the cen­tury prior. To help achieve this aes­thetic, he employs the use of bro­ken boards, oil and acrylic paints, plas­tic resin, and melted waxes — of which they are then brushed, sanded, pol­ished, and even beaten. It sounds harsh, but Evan insists that’s one of his favorite parts of the process!

The mood­i­ness of Evan’s work comes largely from his lim­ited palette. The muted and sub­tle tones pro­vide us with a rich and multi-faceted color story. It gives the appear­ance of antiq­uity, but also hints at moder­nity with the style of draw­ing (specif­i­cally his char­ac­ters) and metic­u­lous atten­tion to detail.

Evan’s sto­ries are pre­sented to us like a folk tale, cau­tion­ing us and demon­strat­ing con­se­quences at the same time. He makes the sea look roman­tic yet crush­ingly heart­break­ing at the same time.

All images via Charm­ing Wall.