Art

I used to draw and paint a lot. Then I went to graduate school, married with children, and soon found that I barely had time for things like eating and sleeping. So the drawing and painting had to stop. But lately, I've been picking it back up.  

Here's some stuff I've done recently. Click on any image to open up a slideshow that you can navigate with the left and right arrow buttons.

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Wittgenstein

Acrylic on canvas
11" x 14"
First time picking up a brush in almost a decade. Gift for colleague.

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McDowell

Pencil and ink on bristol
18" x 18"
From the Steve Pyke photograph here, and in the style of Chuck Close. Gift for colleague.

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Two of Marcello Mastroianni

Top: Pencil and ink on bristol
Bottom: Acrylic on canvas (30" x 30")
​Commission

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Plant Minds illustrations

One of my colleagues (Chauncey Maher) wrote a book about whether plants have minds, and asked me to do some illustrations. There were 40 total. Here are a few of them. 

For more about the book (including more illustrations), see here.

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"How long? Not long."

Ink on bristol
18" x 24"

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Bob

Pencil and ink on bristol
19" x 26"
From the photograph here.

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Interesting people

1+2: Kurt Vonnegut
3+4: George Washington Carver

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Batman, etc.

There was a time in my life when I wanted to be a professional comic book artist. But then I learned how incredibly difficult it is to make a decent living drawing superheroes (so I became a professional philosopher instead ...). Anyway, these days, I relive those old daydreams by copying some of my favorite artists in the industry. This gallery will just be a growing dump of drawings, mostly of a certain Gothamite.

1+2: Cover of Batman #251 (Neal Adams)
3+4: Cover of The Dark Knight Returns #2 (Frank Miller)
5+6: Cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 (George Perez)