Bat, sans mobile.

further news to me: bats are furry, awkward birds.

This is for the birds.

news to me: birds are my weakness. i know people love to draw them, love to paint them, love to sculpt them. hell, my grandfather pretty much made a living off it. but give me a puppy any day. i hate birds.

G-raf.

Penguins!

ta da!

Gator

Fancy footwear there, sir.

Pachyderms on Parade

Eat Up!

Third spread for 'Hullabaloo at the Zoo' by Michael Goldoor. Grape soda through a crazy straw? Sounds like my kind of feast.

Continued..

Hullabaloo at the Zoo, initial pieces

So this is the first page of the second book I'm working on for Michael Goldoor. This one is called "Hullabaloo at the Zoo," and is full of many animals throwing a birthday extravaganza (I prefer to pronounce this "eggstrabaganza!," think Agador Spartacus a la Birdcage). Anyway, Mr. Goldoor has provided me with piles of hysterical imagery, and I intend to do him proud. It is truly a wild rumpus, and I must say I've never painted as many animals in my life, and this is only the beginning. Off we go!

Old Man and the Sea?

I needed to do some painting...I was afraid my hands were starting to forget. Leave it to me to throw an old man in there.


well, it made me laugh. hope you got a chortle outta it ;-)

Spotwork

Been working on some black and white work, because I have virtually none of it in my portfolio. Maybe not the most exhilarating thing I've ever done.

Commence!

Here is a photo of my show installed. Yes I DID stand on a ladder for some crazy long time screwing six two-foot magnet strips into the wall at 103 inches high, thank you very much. Much thanks to anybody who helped me, or picked up screws when I dropped them off the ladder. The show is down now, and I am all graduated. On to bigger and better things!

p.s. please note how cute my bubbie is, checking out my book.

Professional, you say?

These are my new business cards.
Call me anytime.

Pecos Bill & Slue-Foot Sue

Pecos Bill was the greatest cowboy the West ever saw. This is the story of him and his sweetheart, Slue-foot Sue. Bill didn't have any trouble catching ladies.


But everything changed when he met Sue. He first saw her riding a giant catfish down the Rio Grande, taking shots at the sky with her six-shooter.


Bill was so taken by her he proposed on the spot. They planned to get hitched the very next day.

Sue got herself a fancy dress with a big old bustle in back.

On the wedding day Sue was all dressed to the nines. She insisted that Bill prove he loved her by letting her ride Widowmaker, Bill's horse. He couldn't talk her out of it, so up she got.

Widowmaker bucked and jumped and tossed poor Sue right off!

But when she came down and hit the dirt, Sue bounced right back up to the sky again, on account of that fancy, springy bustle.

Sue bounced back and forth, higher and higher!

Finally she bounced so high she popped right into the moon.

It was a crying shame, losing his Sue. But Bill tipped his hat to the moon every night after. Sometimes he could almost hear Sue cat-callin' back to him.

Dude Looks Like A Lady

Are YOU a good flirt?

Johnstown Flood

shazam! drowning! again!

Brooks Sumner Affair

So in 1856 this crazy pro-slavery congressman from South Carolina (Preston Brooks) beat anti-slavery senator Charles Sumner with his cane right in the middle of the senate chamber. Brooks was so into it he kept right on walloping poor Charles (who was trapped at his desk) until the cane broke. Intense.

Need more information on this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner
Enjoy!

Yikes!

This is the re-designed layout i put together for that yikes magazine assignment. Yikes is right.

Tenement Housing

This painting almost sent me into a depression.