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10 x 8 gouache on illustration board.
pied piper, candyman, one-man-band... This guy has it all. (what I wouldn't give to have a pushmipullyu wagon...) I love thinking of the noise this group must make as he leads them off to....
What I love is the discomfort I feel seeing candy mixed in with meaty steaks. I wonder-- would you pluck that black-and-white cookie to eat, even after resting a while in that hot wagon? (I think I would.)
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gouache mini on illustration board, 1.5" x 2.5 in.
click for details. The hardest to do were his closed eye & head hairs-- I waited in between breaths because my hands were too shaky otherwise.
I love gouache. It's so beautiful... the color just punches even at such a tiny size....
8 x 10 gouache on illustration board.
If only we all could be so lucky to have this sort of fierce protection through the primary school years...
During recess I remember distinctly that the playground slide was actually my own personal apatasaurus, but alas, he never came to my rescue. :)
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I was inspired by a book of vintage photographs of the Raj while I was working on this piece... far be it from me to flatly romanticize somewhat dark portions of our history, but my my are some of those outfits & fabrics & architectural ornamentation some of the finest in imagination...
gouache miniature 2.5 x 2.5.
One little plot of land holds the archeology of all his (animal) relationships...
I don't know how other only children out there socialized in their childhoods, but with an absence of siblings and an isolationist streak, those pet relationships I had as a child meant everything to me. I'm just so lucky that my parents let me have the menagerie that I did growing up.
3 x 4.5 gouache on illustration board.
He'll certainly stay that size if he doesn't eat his veggies. Imagination and vegetable buildings never helped anyone grow big and strong, right?
(he seems to have some pilot-like aspirations for when he grows up-- eat, little aeronaut!)
