Some Excitement

Two of my images were included in this month's issue of Pink Panther Magazine.



The focus this month is on domestic violence. My ink drawing of St. Rita, the patron saint of abused women, whom I have blogged about before here, is on page 80:



and "Lost Race Found" is also in there:



The magazine is really beautifully done; they have a gorgeous layout, interesting articles, and a lot of beautiful artwork. You can read it on their website, linked above.
Thanks!

Lost Race Found

I thought I had finished this painting a while ago, but this week I've been working on it again...





Several times lately, some animal thought to be long-extinct is discovered in some far-off region of the world, doing just fine. This is a moment like that: Plato's Lost Race, the pre-human hermaphrodites, split in half by the gods in punishment for arrogance, each half condemned to wander the Earth in a seemingly endless search for completion. Here they are, she-he tends the roots and he-she the branches, on swampy, newly forming ground. The proud peacock watching carefully overhead. (Cats are just always necessary.)

Lost Race Found

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Several times lately, some animal thought to be long-extinct is discovered in some far-off region of the world, doing just fine. This is a moment like that: Plato's Lost Race, the pre-human hermaphrodites, split in half by the gods in punishment for arrogance, each half condemned to wander the Earth in a seemingly endless search for completion.
Here they are, she-he tends the roots and he-she the branches, on swampy, newly forming ground. The proud peacock watching carefully overhead. (Cats are just always necessary.)



Note: This is a new experiment for me.I've been working on this drawing for a while, but I grew furious with the sky and dropped it. Finally, I discovered "free textures" on the flickr page of les brumes, and I borrowed this texture. I photoed my illustration and put it into photoshop, then I made some little changes in the texture I had borrowed and put it over the sky at 57%, and found myself much happier. So, thanks les brumes!