Words to live by . . .

Clownliness is next to Godliness.

I actually hate clowns. They totally creep me out.  I don't even know why I am posting this.  It is actually a perverse portrait of someone and after I drew it I realized the clown connection.  She always creeped me out, too. 

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SOLD!!

I sold a painting!!  The above, Wandering Thought #1, is now in the private collection of Ellen and Campbell Burke of Jamaica Plain, MA. 

Boy, do they have good taste!!

 

new work

May Day

My friend, Steven, is in Istanbul on an artist grant.  There is rioting there. The Turkish police are hosing down the rioters.  Steven is stuck in his hotel room, aware of what is happening in a city he has come to love.  He has a wonderful blog at http://letterfromIstanbul.blogspot.com about his trip.

The above sketch was of some Palestinian children during the Intifada a few years ago.  One child was made to kneel in front of the soldiers.