* * The Studio: A Tour * *

This is the first time that I have a working area that isn't in a bedroom. Now that I'm settled in, I thought I'd share my little humble workroom.


The corner designated for the production of paintings, drawings
and "doodles created whilst daydreaming."
Note the lack of proper lighting. The artist works in a basement and thus, sadly the only source of natural light emanates from the rectangular casement seen in the photograph.



Next is the Media Center: where the computer and the
music player resides (among other things.)



Finally I'll show you to the door, but not before introducing you to the library. Here lies a place of refection. The collection consists mostly of art books, with the occasional children's book thrown in for good measure.

And that concludes the tour. Till next time, Adieu and sweet dreams.

Neato

Here is Jamaica Pond, (one of my favorite places to walk) illustrated by Winslow Homer in 1859.

Why I love Benny the Lion

Even though he is not allowed in my room, Benny always manages to remind me of his presence.
As I scanned a painting and looked at it to make corrections, I noticed he gave me a gift:
An extreamly long orange colored hair painted over on the canvas.

euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
gah.

Oh Benny!!
Must your hair get on EVERYTHING!!?




(he says,"yes" )

Ssssurpise!!

Yesterday I got a surprise package in the mail:





The catalogue of the Pixar show at the Museum of Modern Art!
I can't travel down to see it, so my pals in NYC sent a lil of the show to me! Wow!
Thanks Cynthea, Christi and Nelson!! :-)
I miss you!

Old Lady continued

As I mentioned earlier, I drew all the characters involved in the "Old lady who swallowed a fly," song. Here are some of kid's colorings of the old lady:

Before:



Marker Makeovers:



awesome!

Sunset

Jamaica Pond ~ Jamaica Plain, MA

Batgirl Revolution !

There seems to be a lil Batgirl Revolution on Live Journal!
Just take a peep here to see some of the lovely entries:

Eee gads! Click Me!!

I couldn't resist n added one myself!!

Penelope and her Cat.

No one could quite put their finger on it, but there was definitely something quite extraordinary about Penelope's cat. (If not down right creepy.)

A whole lot of Congratulations!

First of all, I wanted to post a little congrats to Michele and Rob!
Newly engaged! Congrats guys! :-D





Check out A link to Michele's blog and website info here:

Michele Draws

Now a great big second congrats goes out to Amy Ganter, fellow friend and
SVA allum. Amy is currently celebrating the publishing of her graphic novel Sorcerers & Secretaries which comes out in February!





A link to Amy's website here:

Felaxx Gallery

Amy is also engaged to Kazu Kibuishi, creator of the comic,Copper and editor/AD for the brillant Flight Comics Anthology.



(Kazu and Amy)
Go check out Kazu's website here:

Bolt City

Flight Patterns

And now for something completely different....

Flight exhaust patterns in the sky reflected in a pond.







Yeah..they probably aren't the best thing for the air...but...they were pretty. >___<

Persepolis

Recently I finished reading "Persepolis," a Graphic Novel by Marjane Satrapi. (A nice xmas present.)
Prespolis relates Marjane's upbringing in Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
In the preface, Satrapi briefly summarizes the history of her country an states simply, "...writing Persepolis was so important to me. I believe that an entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists. I also don't want those Iranians who lost their lives in prisons defending freedom, who died in the war against Iraq, who suffered under various repressive regimes, or who were forced to leave their families and flee their homeland to be forgotten. One can forgive but one should never forget."

Very good.
There is also a second book which continues the story. I hope to read it soon.

I know an Old Lady who...

swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly!
I guess she will die! (what's up with that?!)

I know an old lady who swallowed a cat. Now fancy that, to swallow a cat.


I made the old lady and animals for the music teacher where I work. She wanted some of the kids in the lower school to learn the song and then color in the images. I hope to get pictures of some of the colored-in pictures by the students soon. That should be neat!!

Happy New Year !!

Ice sculptures and the Boston Public Library, New Years Eve.