MOBY-DICK, Page 233 (re-drawn)

(For various reasons, a handful of these illustrations needed to be redrawn. These are the new versions.)

Title: And often you will notice that being conscious of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him from the sides of the two ships, this standing captain is all alive to the importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs.

6.25 inches by 9.25 inches
ink and marker on found paper
October 31, 2010


(original version below)

MOBY-DICK, Page 158 (re-drawn)

(For various reasons, a handful of these illustrations needed to be redrawn. These are the new versions.)

Title: "God keep me! — keep us all!" murmured Starbuck, lowly.

9.5 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink and marker on found paper
October 31, 2010


(original version below)

MOBY-DICK, Page 429

Title: ...the British government was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South Sea. Commanded by a naval Post-Captain, the Rattler made a rattling voyage of it, and did some service...

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
October 31, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 428

Title: In 1778, a fine ship, the Amelia, fitted out for the express purpose, and at the sole charge of the vigorous Enderbys, boldly rounded Cape Horn, and was the first among the nations to lower a whale-boat of any sort in the great South Sea.

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, ink, marker and watercolor on found paper
October 30, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 427

Title: "But he will still be hunted, for all that. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures. He's all a magnet!"

8.25 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 426

Title: "...Moby Dick doesn't bite so much as he swallows."

8.5 inches by 7 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
October 29, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 425

Title: "Samuel Enderby is the name of my ship," interrupted the one-armed captain, addressing Ahab...

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and ballpoint pen on found paper
October 28, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 424

Title: "...the whale's tail looming straight up out of it, perpendicular in the air, like a marble steeple."

10.75 inches by 15.5 inches
acrylic paint and pencil on found paper
October 26, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 423

Title: "Presently up breaches from the bottom of the sea a bouncing great whale, with a milky-white head and hump, all crows' feet and wrinkles."

10.75 inches by 15.5 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
October 25, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 148 (re-drawn)

(For various reasons, a handful of these illustrations needed to be redrawn. These are the new versions.)

Title: There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea...

6 inches by 7.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
October 25, 2010


(original version below)

MOBY-DICK, Page 422

Title: With his ivory arm frankly thrust forth in welcome, the other captain advanced, and Ahab, putting out his ivory leg, and crossing the ivory arm (like two sword-fish blades) cried out in his walrus way, "Aye, aye, hearty! let us shake bones together!—an arm and a leg! - an arm that never can shrink, d'ye see; and a leg that never can run. Where did'st thou see the White Whale? - how long ago?"

10.75 inches by 7.75 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
October 24, 2010