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I'm only happy when I'm looting

I'm only happy when I'm looting ; mixed media on canvas, 12 x 12 inches.

one time too many ... sold

This is the painting I sold on the weekend (sorry, Susan). The buyer came and saw and went away and thought about it and came back and chose this one, so I know it's going to a good home.

In the Kingdom of Chicken

Remember this lovely couple? Anyway, the story they belong to came out yesterday, in the latest (fall) issue of The Puritan .

Uncle Ulysses

This optimistic fellow is Uncle Ulysses, from part five of my long story .

life as a viking

Since IF and IFN have been so atrocious lately (hackery in extremis , why don't we just call it Illustration Photoshop Filter Friday already?), I've decided to forego their pleasures this week. Instead this is my nephew Shawn , who turns two on December 3rd. Like most of us, he likes to ram things into his mouth, throw fits and hit people. Children are our future!

Gawker Artists

Gawker { daily Manhattan media news and gossip, reporting live from the center of the universe } has made me one of their Gawker Artists : essentially, you get a page in their gallery , and occasional exposure when your artwork appears in the place of ads. Amazingly, they do it simply because they can. C, who loves her celebrity trash as dearly as cats and red wine, should especially appreciate this.

2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition

Yesterday they announced Ellen Banda-Aaku of Zambia as the winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition . Her story Sozi's Box was selected as the best story from the Africa region of the Commonwealth and as the winning story from more than two thousand entries. Twenty five other writers from across the Commonwealth have also won prizes in the 2007 competition. I was one of them, for my short story Scissors . The Commonwealth Short Story Competition exists to increase understanding between and appreciation of different Commonwealth cultures, to showcase the rich diversity of the Commonwealth and to support rising literary talents. The competition has been held each year since 1996, administered by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association on behalf of the Commonwealth Foundation. Each year the competition identifies around 25 outstanding short stories and records them for radio broadcast around the Commonwealth. Five regional winners are chosen, for Africa, Asia, Carib

charlie

This fellow's for a story about gangs, loneliness and the end of the world.

for illo friday ... {superstition}

Nuns and rulers, rulers and nuns, and all the craziness in-between. But I could just as easily put up a monk, mullah, witch or Brahmin priest.

because girls love horseys

I drew this to use in a flyer for my sister Rachel's birthday. I'll probably dump it over on Illustration Friday Night as well, just to add to the general confusion.

for illo friday ... {scale}

Congratulations, Penelope; this one actually made me think (I'm still bracing myself for the theme of "elves" or "Rudolph" at Christmas, however).

every day escapes me

It really does. Every day is full of ideas and notes and plans and tasks that form battalions and charge my mind and then just full-on gallop away from me. It's as if they have their own campaign to get on with, and all I can do is try to play catch-up (which, by mid-afternoon especially, when my brain has the consistency of canned ham, is usually a lost cause). Anyway, some random bits ... x} This (above) is the work of Joseph Cornell . He was a genius in the art of assemblage. My friend Susan likes him, too. This illo's for the chapter I took to writing group last night, the second part of a long story (or a short novella). It went over okay, although some people had trouble with its alternate universe angle, and of course C took the opportunity to hammer me, which she always does, and then denies it on the way home. Sporting! This fun, lovely painting is called 'Spun', by Cathy Nichols . I have a print of it in my studio. x} A few weeks ago my friend Jeannette wen

time for bed, please

time for bed, please ; mixed media on canvas, 8 x 8 inches; the string series continues. Oh dear, oh dear.

red queen always wins

red queen always wins ; mixed media on canvas, 8 x 8 inches; the string series continues. Thought (at the time) that my digital camera had done much better than this, so excuse the slight crappiness in quality ... the smaller you go, the harder it is to work with (I think I saw that on a t-shirt somewhere). Anyway, I'll need to scan it at some point.

for illo friday ... {the mad hatter}

The real theme is 'hats' but wtf? Anyway, this reminds me of an awesome (that one's for you, C) computer game I played quite a few years ago, called, quite simply, Alice .

little big man

Ha! IFN this week has given me yet another excuse to put up a picture of Custer.