Another mixed media illustration using sculpey, 3D and Photoshop. For a children's book I'm writing. "The writers lived on a cobblestone island just slightly north of this world. Long days were spent in deep concentration, writing all the necessary newspapers, technical manuals, business publications and scientific journals that analyzed the analysis of scientific journals..."

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A 3D DNA project involving cinema 4D, zbrush and photoshop. Actually pigfish do exist... in Texas. Pigfish (Orthopristis chrysoptera) are in the grunt family and are good bait for most bottom fish. Tarpon are also particularly fond of them. Hmmmm. I also revised "Uther is Sick". I'll be uploading high resolution wallpaper soon (even for those of you with 30 inch cinema displays- gee whiz!). As far as other dribbles, I'm (painfully) working on a children's book about writers on an island, designing materials for the NYC Surtex show, planning a large scale reconstruction painting of Trajan's Kiosk at Philae, and CD designs for the next Trocadero record. please pass the martini.

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Little girls now are smarter than little girls of the past. Illustration done for a fairytale rewrite project. Sculpey, mixed media and digital. In 1989 an illustrated version of Little Red Riding Hood was banned in two California school districts. This was apparently because Little Red Riding Hood was shown carrying alcohol (presumably wine) to her grandmother, and some were worried about the inclusion of alcohol in a children's story. Author Charles Dickens is known to have said "Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I have the impression that, if I had been able to marry her, I would have known perfect happiness." And yes, the bones are real.

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This decorative bowl was handmade from recycled materials. I used the preinventive form of a porcupine as the driving element behind the shape. One of my professors, Judy-Sue, brought in a single quill she found in one of her dogs' nose to class and I had to do something with it!

"Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter." ~Ogden Nash

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