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

Sunday, December 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 483

Title: "But I am not a brave man; never said I was a brave man; I am a coward..."

8.5 inches by 7 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil, ink and pencil on found paper
December 8, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 418

Title: "Well; the sun he wheels among 'em. Aye, here on the coin he's just crossing the threshold between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
October 23, 2010

Saturday, October 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 394

Title: "Why, let me see; yes, you may as well tell him now that — that — in fact, tell him I've diddled him, and (aside to himself) perhaps somebody else."

6 inches by 9.25 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
September 30, 2010

Friday, July 2, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 295

Title: Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it. For the strain constantly kept up by the windlass continually keeps the whale rolling over and over in the water, and as the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the line called the "scarf," simultaneously cut by the spades of Starbuck and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as it is thus peeled off, and indeed by that very act itself, it is all the time being hoisted higher and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the main-top...

7.5 inches by 10.5 inches
acrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
July 1, 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 282

Title: Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ballpoint pen and ink on found paper
June 17, 2010

Saturday, April 10, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 220

Title: "Mr. Stubb," said I, turning to that worthy, who, buttoned up in his oil-jacket, was now calmly smoking his pipe in the rain...

6.75 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint, ink and pencil on sketchbook page
April 9, 2010

Thursday, April 1, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 211

Title: He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear such queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling for the mere joke of the thing.

11 inches by 7.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
March 24, 2010

Sunday, February 14, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 163

Title: Because a laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer...

6.5 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
February 14, 2010

Thursday, January 7, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 120

Title: Starting at the unforeseen concluding exclamation of the so suddenly scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly, "I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half like it, sir."

7.75 inches by 11 inches
ballpoint pen on found paper
January 7, 2010

Monday, December 28, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 116

Title: But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colorless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.

9 inches by 6.25 inches
ink on found paper
December 28, 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009

MOBY-DICK, Page 111

Title: Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air...

8.5 inches by 10 inches
acrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paper
December 21, 2009