Ivan Denisovich. This watercolor went pretty quickly and I think I could spend some more time on it now that I am looking at it on the screen. I like it, but I'm not sure if I shouldn't go back in on it and turn the volume up to 11.

Paradise Lost

So this is Eve and the Serpent (or as Max Klinger might say, Eve and the Future). It was done as an illustration for Paradise Lost. The circular composition is an unusual one for me - I like rectangles. I started off with the normal rectangular format, but quickly realized it wanted to be a circle and I went along with it. Photoshop.

Leviathan

The leviathan is mentioned in the book of Job as some sort of a giant terrifying sea creature - probably a crocodile. I did this for Hobbes' book of the same name. I made mine part crocodile, part prehistoric whale and part mosasaur. Photoshop.

War of the Worlds

I'm not really into drawing robots and machines. Don't get me wrong; when they are done well they are really cool! This is for a War of the Worlds job; I don't know exactly what it is illustrating, but there you go. It's a mecha version of the ol' tripod Martian ships.

Perelandra Cross Section

This has been inordinately frustrating for me. I'm not entirely happy with it nor do I hate it. There are parts that I really like and there are parts that I hope you really don't notice. I've spent a shameful amount of time on this and I hope I'm done; we'll see what my AD says.

Stag Beetle

It's getting hot out and time to go hunting for bugs. I like to augment my collection whenever possible. I have a longhorn beetle at home in the freezer waiting to be pinned and dried. I found him on the clothesline at our campsite at Pine Grove Furnace. I'll have to do a drawing and get it online. I did this drawing of a stag beetle some time ago; it will have to do until I can get the longhorn beetle on paper.

Camping Watercolor

Pine Grove Furnace State Park is a jewel. It is quiet, secluded and, incidentally, the traditional half way point on the Appalachian Trail. This is a little watercolor I did while sitting outside my tent waiting for the baby to get up from his nap.

Frog Creature

Another Perelandra illustration. This time it's one of the ubiquitous frog-like creatures that are so tangentially important to the story. Photoshop.

Dueling Images

So this is my problem. I start off drawing books with the full intention of treating them loosely; I do a couple of things that I really like and all of a sudden I tighten up for as long as the book lasts. In this spread, for example, the two images do not relate at all. We have a head and a wrapped cross (for Lent). Contrast that with the elderly gentleman and the slightly more elderly dinosaur. I had the drawing of the man and I also wanted to do a dinosaur. So I made them go together.

Faculty Drawings

Another faculty meeting, another griffin.