Showing posts with label works: moby-dick (tashtego). Show all posts
Showing posts with label works: moby-dick (tashtego). Show all posts

Friday, December 24, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 491

Title: "Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What's the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don't want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!"

8 inches by 5.5 inches
colored pencil on found paper
December 12, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 400

Title: Tashtego stood in the bows. He was full of the fire of the hunt.

8 inches by 5.5 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
October 5, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 333

Title: Now, how had this noble rescue been accomplished? Why, diving after the slowly descending head, Queequeg with his keen sword had made side lunges near its bottom, so as to scuttle a large hole there; then dropping his sword, had thrust his long arm far inwards and upwards, and so hauled out our poor Tash by the head.

5.25 inches by 8.75 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on watercolor paper
August 3, 2010

Monday, August 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 331

Title: ...but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up — my God! poor Tashtego — like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!

7.25 inches by 10.25 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
August 1, 2010

Sunday, August 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 330

Title: Nimble as a cat, Tashtego mounts aloft; and without altering his erect posture, runs straight out upon the overhanging main-yard-arm, to the part where it exactly projects over the hoisted Tun.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
August 1, 2010

Saturday, June 12, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 277

Title: Like desperadoes they tugged and they strained, till the welcome cry was heard — "Stand up, Tashtego! — give it to him!" The harpoon was hurled.

18 inches by 11.5 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
June 12, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 208

Title: High aloft in the cross-trees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries.

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 22, 2010

Friday, January 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 144

Title: ...while Tashtego, knife in hand, began laying out the circle preliminary to scalping him.

8 inches by 11 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
January 29, 2010

Saturday, December 26, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 113

Title: Next was Tashtego, an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly promontory of Martha's Vineyard, where there still exists the last remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers.

5.75 inches by 8 inches
colored pencil, ink and marker on found paper
December 26, 2009