Figgy Friday

This is a button I did for the Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition tonight in Seattle - also a fundraiser for the Pike Market Senior Center and Food Bank.  The otter doesn't have a name yet, but they're working on it.

My Krell after Dürer

Found a huge book of Dürer plates and essays about his early work. This thing is gigantic. And it's just his early stuff! Anyway, fell in love with his portrait of the merchant Oswald Krell and wanted to do a take on it. Not super happy with this, but I'm never really happy with anything...added a kitten for fun. First time I've used a brush for hair technique. I felt like I was cheating. You just plop the brush down repeatedly like a stamp, rather than dragging it. I'll be addicted to these things now.

Krell has the most inscrutable expression -- more so than the Mona Lisa, even. I would love to know the guy's story.

Ben and Dmitri

 

The Seattle chamber group Trio Pardalote asked me to draw Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich for an upcoming concert. I somehow gravitate to younger photos of composers, though it's probably true that older faces are easier to caricature.

The file I sent them has a space under the image for the concert info. I hope Heather sends me a poster from their run -  my art always looks better combined with other people's text for some reason.