Charcoal paintings come in variety of images, themes, and symbols. Charcoal has been used since the BC to create intricate images of many sorts. Charcoal drawings reached popularity during the renaissance but ,unfortunately, not many artworks survived from that time. Although charcoal flakes off from the canvas, many artists continue to use it due to the wonderful black strokes charcoal produces when it’s used.

This charcoal artwork was created by Odilon Redon, who was born in Bordeaux, France. Redon describes his work as something that “...inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of of the undetermined”. This specific artwork portrays a spider with the head of a person. The head has a big grin,