Brown Booby Philosophy

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity.

A birdism from Rilke

A Stitch In Time

Digital Composite for Illustration Friday's word STITCH. Amber, in the future, is wading with the ducks in the botanical gardens in Santa Barbara in the 1950s.

Crow is Soaring Over the Red Poppies

Digital composite for Illustration Friday's weekly subject SOAR.

Poppies were an original pen & ink & marker illustration which was then scanned and printed at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley on rice paper. Crow was added later.

Check out Kala's website for great classes at http://www.kala.org/mission.html

Father Affected By Time

As the end of another year approaches, it seems fitting to look back at how time affects the stages of man - in this case E.A. Autrey from 1947 to 2005

Unplug Christmas

It's that time of year to unplug the T.V. (90% ads to buy something you don't need; 10% re-runs) and read a good book. Final Saatchi website contribution for 2007.

What Is It About Turtles?

My Flying Sea Turtle drawing is old (probably from 2003) but something about it is also new. I can thank the turtle for some new music I've discovered. One of the contributors at http://illustrationfriday.com/ has a blog where he lists his top 10 CDs for 2007. #1 is "Bruxist Frog" by proswell (aka a Chicago musician named Joe Misra). Thanks to itunes, I can now listen to the proswell tune "Yuko Pailey" right before Ryuichi Sakamoto's
"Aqua" and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." A little new with the old. Some things about this tech revolution are quite nice!

http://goflyingturtle.blogspot.com/2007/12/steves-top-ten-cds-for-2007.html.

T Shirt Designs

With help from Molly and Amber, some Creature T shirts were designed. Available at zazzle.com in the Redcrow Designs Gallery.