My art, in Ohio!

As you probably know, it gives me great joy when people who own my art send me photos of it framed and hanging on their walls. What you might now know that my wife is very fond of my art as well, and we have begun to frame a few of her favorite Moby-Dick pieces. So here is my own art, framed and hanging on my own walls. First, a piece which my wife tells me is actually her favorite thing I have ever drawn, the illustration for page 218, hanging on the wall above our bed. This illustrates the line Squall, whale, and harpoon had all blended together...

The piece is actually just attached to the matte and floating in the frame, so that all the tactile details of the paper, including the blotches of ink and the fold in the middle, are visible. At first I wasn’t too sure about that kind of presentation, but she has an incredible eye for these things and after seeing the finished frame it really looks incredible.

Next, my illustration for page 300, which illustrates the line Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a world. This one is framed and hanging over our tiny little computer desk. You can see a bit of my workhorse of a scanner in the bottom...

This one is matted and has a very simple brushed steel frame. My wife refers to this piece, which is a white charcoal drawing over acrylic paint, as my “ghostly technique,” which to me sounds awesome.

More from me soon, and if you’ve got a piece of my art framed and hanging on your wall, please email me a photo. I’d love to post it on the blog, with your permission and your identity carefully protected. And if you’d rather keep things private, that’s fine too, just send me an email so I can see my art in its new home.