Be Quill My Heart: Another Fish Story

Be Quill My Heart: Another Fish Story

My late father was an avid fisherman who often traveled to Florida to fish in both freshwater and saltwater habitats. One day when I was 13, a box arrived from Florida for him. He opened the box and I saw the strangest thing. It looked just like a yellow balloon with...
My Working Method

My Working Method

My working method is as follows. While many of the outlines of members of my menagerie are created in pen and ink and scanned in, others are created digitally by juxtaposing outlined ovals and cutting them up and repeating and realigning them along with solid shapes...
A-Fishionados

A-Fishionados

I grew up in a household of “a-fishionados.” My late father enjoyed freshwater and saltwater fishing and instilled the love of fishes in his 3 amigos. My two older brothers as teenagers had multiple freshwater tropical fish tanks with varieties of cool and...
Note to a Student

Note to a Student

Embrace what you love and learn new skills as your temperament and patience will allow and stop making comparisons because it is often apples to oranges.

My Quest for Creepy Crawlers

My Quest for Creepy Crawlers

Back in the day you could make your own beetle collection with metal molds, liquid latex rubber and a hot plate for young nature lovers like me. Mattel Toys came out with the Thingmaker Creepy Crawlers Bug Maker Kit in 1964. You can still find these kits on EBAY and...