MOBY-DICK, Page 505

Title: "Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, inter-meddling, monopolizing, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and the next day coffins to clap them in, and yet again life-buoys out of those same coffins? Thou art as unprincipled as the gods, and as much of a jack-of-all-trades."

8.25 inches by 11 inches
acrylic paint and collage on found paper
December 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 504

Title: "I'll have me - let's see - how many in the ship's company, all told? But I've forgotten. Any way, I'll have me thirty separate, Turk's-headed life-lines, each three feet long hanging all round to the coffin. Then, if the hull go down, there'll be thirty lively fellows all fighting for one coffin, a sight not seen very often beneath the sun!"

7.5 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 23, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 503

Title: "Away! What possesses thee to this? Make a life-buoy of the coffin, and no more."

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
ink, marker and watercolor paint on found paper
December 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 502

Title: At sun-rise this man went from his hammock to his mast-head at the fore; and whether it was that he was not yet half waked from his sleep (for sailors sometimes go aloft in a transition state), whether it was thus with the man, there is now no telling; but, be that as it may, he had not been long at his perch, when a cry was heard - a cry and a rushing - and looking up, they saw a falling phantom in the air...

7.25 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 501

Title: "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor's!"

8 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper
December 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 501 (first, unused version)

(Another page where I had two ideas, so I made them both. This was the first one and it is a very intentional mirroring of the piece I did for page 26 way back in Augist of 2009.)

Title: "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor's!"

6 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 20, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 094 (re-drawn)

(For various reasons, a handful of these illustrations needed to be redrawn. These are the new versions. All I can say about this one is, damn you Alberto Giacometti and your world famous "Walking Man" sculptures from approximately 1947 to 1949.)

Title: It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf.

5.5 inches by 8.25 inches
colored pencil on found paper
December 31, 2010


(original version below)

MOBY-DICK, Page 500

Title: "Oh, ye frozen heavens! look down here. Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines. Here, boy; Ahab's cabin shall be Pip's home henceforth, while Ahab lives. Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings. Come, let's down."

8 inches by 11.75 inches
ink on watercolor paper
December 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 499

Title: Snap! the overstrained line sagged down in one long festoon; the tugging log was gone.

7.75 inches by 10.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 498

Title: In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.

6 inches by 9 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
December 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, Page 497

Title: "Men," said he, steadily turning upon the crew, as the mate handed him the things he had demanded, "my men, the thunder turned old Ahab's needles..."

8.25 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper and chipboard
December 18, 2010