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Gyotaku literally means “fish rubbing” in Japanese. So what I have here isn’t exactly gyotaku properly speaking; it’s more like plant-taku. (All of this taku talk is making me think of gyotacos, which would be delicious right now… a little of that sour cream-type sauce that my wife makes with some…
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I make drawing books and have been doing so since high school. Way back then, my drawing book was just a repurposed day planner. All of my drawings had lines, numbers, and dates through them. At the time, it didn’t bother me too much; in fact, I kind of liked…
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So there I was, snorkeling with the kids, looking for crabs, sand dollars, snails, starfish, whatever and along floats a dead Crevalle Jack. A small one to be sure, but a very fresh one. In fact, it still had a small fish in its throat. I am unable to pass…
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The one on the left was during the chapel homily at school and the other was done during The homily at church. I only work in pencil or pen during church, all the color work is saved for later.
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I like to make artistic resurrections. I rarely throw anything away – even the complete junk. Because, hey, you never know. Sometimes painting over that failed piece, or turning it upside down and scrawling all over it is just the thing. Some time ago I assigned master copy linocuts to…
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These are some preparatory watercolors I have done for some murals to go on 1st grade classrooms. These images will be printed on dimensional PVC and attached to the walls of the classrooms. My colleague and I will paint backgrounds directly on the walls of the classroom that these will…
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I am a keeper of chickens. I like them very much and sometimes I even draw them. But I usually add things that are not strictly in keeping with actual chicken anatomy. I sort of picture these two as a squabbling couple. The rooster is being hen-pecked.
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Earlier in the summer I was asked to do a series of illustrations for a short book on classical education co-written by my brother and a colleague of ours. I did six images in pen and ink. Lots of cross hatching here. This first image is of “Pius Aeneas”. This…
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Here are the next four monsters in the tremendously fun Monster-A-Day series.
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At the end of the school year I found myself signing yearbooks for students. Since I am not the sentimental type, I made monster drawings in each of their books. Each drawing took about 5 to 10 minutes and, I thought, turned out rather nicely. So I decided to do…
