This is the final image for A.Word.A.Day— it appeared last week but I forgot to post it here. This fellow is certainly dressed for excess! It was really a hoot to paint.
The original is sold, but prints are available in my Etsy shop.
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Goodly Creature Acrylic on collaged text & diagrams on six canvases, 6"x6" each
Finally I have prints of this piece available on Etsy! Individual parts or all six elements in a bundle, in case you’d like to genetically engineer your own example of Zoorobotany!
p.s. If you’re interested in how this piece came to be, there’s a slide show on my process page.
Dreaming Acrylic painting on map and music collage on canvas, 30" x 24"
You may have seen bits & pieces of this image before, but here’s the whole thing!
At last I am able to make prints of this available on Etsy. They’re not full-size (about half that), but much bigger than my usual small prints. (When I tried to reduce them to standard printer-paper size, you could hardly see the details at all!)
Unrelated note: today’s A.Word.A.Day painting is Ineluctable. A warm welcome to all of you who are arriving here from that site. (For the rest of you, if you haven’t yet wandered through this wonderland of words, head on over now!) And if you’d like to know more about the painting itself, see my previous post.
Disprize Acrylic painting on map and music collage on canvas, 30" x 24"
Sometimes one must refrain from eating, if only to make a statement. ;-)
This image was created for Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day, where it’s featured today. If you love words, you should definitely sign up for Anu’s daily emails— they are always a delight.
The original painting as well as prints are available in my Etsy shop.
Ineluctable Curiotype Alphabet
This may be a bit of a stretch for Illustration Friday’s topic, but who among us doesn’t walk through the valley of the shadow of death (& taxes), at least some of the time? After all, they’re ineluctable!
This is yet another painting in the series I’ve been working on, whose purpose will be revealed soon. (Although anyone who tries can figure it out with very little effort.) In addition to invoking the Grim Reaper and the IRS, it includes an ineluctable nod to James Joyce, though you may have to click on the image to be able to read it.
Confession: this painting was intended for my Halloween post, not Thanksgiving! But that week I was visited by a monster of a fever, & rather than getting in the holiday mood by painting Death, I got to feel like death warmed over. The good part is that, now that I’m finally healthy again, just being able to walk around doing everyday tasks without feeling like a zombie makes me feel grateful every minute of the day, so I’m going to be very ready to give thanks tomorrow!
I’m also enormously grateful to every one of you out there in Internet Land who visits this blog. I never thought it would be possible to feel so close to people I’ve never met, but internet magic makes it so. You encourage & inspire me, you make me smile & laugh, sometimes you even make me cry (in a good way). THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!
Original Painting & Prints available in my Etsy shop
Felicitous Acrylic on collaged text on canvas, 6"x6"
Another in the probably-not-so-mysterious series that began with Malinger.
It is felicitous indeed that Illustration Friday’s word this week is “tail”– this fellow not only sports his own fine fox tail, but also holds a bunch of foxtail grass. Also featured (though tail-less) are foxgloves, some glowing foxfire mushrooms, & some faux-foxing around the edges of the paper.
Original Painting ~SOLD~
Prints Available in my Etsy shop
Specimen: Darwin Acrylic painting on text collage on canvas, 6"x6"
Yet another piece based on old scientific texts. This one came from an entry in an encyclopedia published in Darwin’s lifetime. I scanned it & printed it so as not to destroy the original. The print was collaged to canvas, then painted over with acrylics.
(By the way, while the entry acknowledged some controversy over his theories, it acclaimed him as an eminent naturalist who had revolutionized scientific thought, & lamented that he was “still misunderstood.” This was in 1872!)
Reposted from Curious Art BlogOriginal SOLD~ prints are available in my Etsy shop.
