Birthday Card

If you haven't been invited to Eliza's 4th birthday party yet...you must not have met her. I'm pretty sure every grocery store clerk and waitress in the state has been personally invited.

Red

Pup

Yellow House

Drawing for a friend. She's moving and wanted her kids to remember the house.

Toy!

A set of blocks I made for my daughter's Christmas present. It's a six-sided puzzle. I've been meaning to post this for months.

Doodles

Book Review: The Golden Ass

This is one of my favorite books--it's a wild and hilarious fantasy that plumbs the depths and ascends the heights of humanity. The hero, Lucius, is transformed into a donkey and mingles with robbers, murderers, prostitutes, ghosts, witches, a guy with a golden nose, lovers, priests, and gods. He witnesses the whole mess of late-Roman life, from street violence and sexual degradation to the wistfulness of love and spiritual transcendence. As Oscar Wilde put it, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
It's a sort of ribald Romana Commedia. And it's also the source of the profound and lovely tale of Cupid and Psyche, a lyrical story of symbolic love.
I made a series of illustrations to this book after reading it--you can see them here.

Ghost Love

Tree

Trying a new pencil/digital method, inspired by my e-pal Eric Orchard.

Fox Music

Figure Drawing!

Week two of figure drawing. 

Pup

New Triptych: Opening Soon!

Figure Drawing!

Made it to a figure drawing session last night! I haven't been in years, and intend to go back often to improve my drawing skills.
Hopefully these will become decent as time goes on, but it was nice to get back to fundamentals.

Doggy

Edisto

It's already summer in South Carolina.

Graphic Novel sketch

K

Storm Warning

90 min landscape study.

Book Review: Dream of Red Mansions

One of the greatest masterpieces of literature, reading this was an incredible experience. Poignant, funny, metaphysical, tragic, allegorical, psychologically profound, and highly entertaining, it bridges the worlds of heaven and earth, dreams and "reality," and is a truly astonishing achievement. Reading does not get any better than this--it really is up there with Don Quixote, The Divine Comedy, War and Peace, Shakespeare, and anything else you might name. As one Western scholar on the work noted, to "appreciate its position in Chinese culture, we must imagine a work with the critical cachet ofJames Joyce's Ulysses with the popular appeal of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind – and twice as long as the two combined"...There is an excellent review here (http://www.complete-review.com...) if you are interested (it's listed in an alternate translation as "Story of the Stone").

Apple Study

Owl (on a velocipede)

Detail

From a portrait commission I'm working on....
More to come.