A Customized Guitar Strap

As a gift for my nephew, I customized this guitar strap. Old school sharpie on leather.

The Owl and the Pussycat

A digital illustration for one of my favorite fun poems(which I know by heart);

"The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five pound note..."

mirror mirror on the wall...

My Snow White painting, revised and made into a postcard for the show.

Snow White

  I'm very excited to be working on a production of Snow White for the New Acting Company this year.  The director wanted an image for the poster - something gothic and kind of old school -  so I painted this, along with a few other designs for him to choose from.  It's not the exact image we'll be using (I'll post that one later),but this one is my favorite.

It's still snowing...

...and I'm dreaming of Spring.  What else can one do when the world turns to snow and ice?  Paint birds, that's what. These might be yours if you wish...you'll find them here.

snow day

December 26...New York City, blanketed under snow so deep it swallows up cars, is beautiful as only New York in the snow can be;  soft.  white.  silent.

eclipse

Last night there was a lunar eclipse, coinciding with the winter solstice - I heard that these two days, before last night, had not converged in something like 400 years. Did I see it? No.  I think I felt it, though.  How else to explain the urge to paint, coinciding with the discovery, amongst the ruins of my closet, of two beautiful sets of paints, both oil and acrylic, and a box spilling out canvasses, all shapes and sizes, all blank.

So I painted this. It's small, but I like that about it.  And I like the way it looks on my wall.

I think I'm going to make more like this.

Christmas Carousel Rabbit

Growing up, my delicate stomach made all but the tamest carnival rides off limits.  So I spent many happy childhood moments on carousels.  Okay, maybe some grownup ones, too.  I find vintage carousel art especially beautiful.  This is one of a series of images I made based on antique carousel carvings.  The original art is available here