Guillaume, Olivier, Claire and Lucas

Butchering this winter's pig

Karnaval Humanitaire de l'INSA de Lyon - 2013 edition

pizza and palm trees

capri

Tandem bike trip with Dad to Néré, Mom in the sweep van.

Our picnic unexpectedly coincided with the "engine cooling break" of a couple hundred noisy Terrot motorcycle enthusiasts and collectors.

New sketchbook!  Thank you Cindy!

Every year, blank banners are distributed to local artists to decorate as they see fit.  The banners hang on Nye Beach lampposts until the end of the summer and are then auctioned off to raise money for OCCA.  See the other banners

Kelp forest/ Forêt d'algues

Oreillard/ Little Bat

Oxalis and Moss / Oxalis et Mousse

Penter Lane Pine/ Pin de Penter Lane

Dinosaur Devours Primeval Forest/ Dinosaur dévore forêt primordiale

Forêt :Après changement climatique

The Forest: After climate change

The Last Laugh/ Et qui gagne finalement?

Log Truck/ Camion debardeur

C'est comme ça/ The Way It Is

Another project for Dick Kennedy (and his publisher,) some illustration propositions for "The Blue Stone" to be published by itself as a children's book:

Birth announcements: Bigleaf maple and coast pine.

Dessin sous la pluie

sorry about the terrible photography!

City Folk/ Gens de la ville

Arbre du bonheur/ Tree of Happiness

Voilà une petite illustration pour un projet de Felicien, la fabrique futuristique utopique de Goba soft drinks.

owl #2

Owl #1

War

Dawn came slowly,
almost not at all.
The sun crept over the hill
cautiously
fearful of being hit
by mortar fire.

-Dan Roth

'My dear, you can't see the forest for the trees...'

'...and you can't see the trees for the forest, darling.'

Voici quelques pages du carnet des States!  Bientot j'empreunte l'appareil photo a Mom et je mettrai des images des tableaux que je travaille pour l'expo a Gueret.

Ooof!  I hadn't realized how long it's been since I put any sketchbook pages on here!

The first of what will be forty paintings about the forest for a show at the Gueret library during the Foret Follies festival.

RIMG0279 This dreamish egg-tempera mural that Simon and I painted in our computer room is meant to balance out the stressful influence of bright screens.

And a test illustration for a lengthy poem (by Dick Kennedy again) about There Was an Old Woman... and lots of terrible kids.

Maybe some future collaboration to be had with my childhood hero Dick Kennedy, at any rate we've been throwing ideas back and forth.  Here's some vignettes for "Amy's Eyes":

Here are what those big oil canvases ended up looking like.  Spring:

Fall:

This is the first one, Try 1:

And Try 2 (trying to make it springier.)  I'm learning things about acrylics fast!

And this is the second painting, which I think I'll redo again as well.

I had this idea: I could illustrate all my favorite poems.

Cécile dreamed that I painted a red horse on the couch cushion.