Adelyn Bell’rose (Painting)

The smirking image of short, red haired human lady leers out of this picture. Her skin is pallid but unmarried, her eyes a brilliant green, glistening like emeralds. A hint of a smile, lingers around her lip, the hint of a fang peering through.

She is of no great beauty this one, but carries herself as if she is, showing from the waist up in a half reclined posture. Her hand rests on a pile of papers and quills, near to those an upturned ink bottle – though the ‘ink’ within is a deep, ruddy burgundy shade, like coagulating blood.

Shadowy figures lie in the background of the picture, surrounded by hints of hellfire and what appears to be crumbling ruins.

There’s something highly unsettling about this picture, something about the way the female vampire looks out at the world, as if returning the viewers gaze, and undressing the viewer herself, stripping them to bare basics for base use, like a piece of meat. Just gazing at it too long makes one wish to take a bath.

At the bottom right of the picture, very small, is a tiny black rams head, in profile, with ‘A.S.’ beneath it.