what we all have

Obsession
collage
8.25 inches high x 10.25 inches wide, two-page notebook spread

a little time travel

Back to Bolivar Peninsula in Texas for a moment.

This is a shark, an unhappy shark, a soon-to-be-dead and eaten shark. The fellow whose arm is holding the creature was smoking a cigar about the size of the shark and was very pleased with himself. 

The shark's skin is like metallic velvet: smooth when stroked towards the tail and like sandpaper in the opposite direction.

Other people on the beach were offering fresh shark meat for me to take home.

fishies

I am participating in an Art2Mail postcard swap. The deadline is March 15 and I am on time. These are the postcards that I am sending out. All fish. There's something about fish that appeals to me; I think it's their silence. They glide and flitter and dive and meander and, from our point of view, they do it quietly. Yes, often they are frantic, but that's when something disturbs them, like our human presence. But when there are no predators, then there is nothing to do but eat and enjoy the day.

I wonder: what kinds of sounds do fish make?

leaping

Because this Friday was February 29th, leap day for the leap year, the Illustration Friday theme was "leap." I leapt. I leapt into another place, filled with animals, toys, rain, and all those things endangered by stupid people.

Enough. Enjoy.

Into the Fire

collage

7 inches high x 5 inches wide

multiple fish

Fish in the Forest

7 inches high x 5 inches wide

collage

There are fish in the forest, hiding, living secret lives. Illustration Friday came and went; the topic this week was "multiple." So many fish, so many stories.