From “Strangest Adventures of Ed Augusts”

I am also planning to illustrate a number of other books, some of fiction, and some on various subjects.  The mystical and metaphysical bent is very strong in me, and I have some ideas on icons, and pictures based on symbols from astrology, hermetic arts, and arcane truths from around the world and especially from ancient times.  At this point I also want to announce a whole series of books of poetry scheduled to come out over the next two years. 

The books I have illustrated at this point (September, 2013), include “100 Scary, Creepy Movies”, “The Tonic Supreme” by Edmond Auclair, “Secrets of the Ouija” by Ed Augusts and Nikki Ligtelyn, (1997), and my own published version of “Fairies at Work and at Play”, by Geoffrey Hodson, (2009),  a Catholic clairvoyant, and published first in the mid 1920’s.  I also used some of my full-sized acrylic canvasses for the front covers of “Exile and Double-Exile”,  “Semi-Mesozoic Pizza with Primordial Anchovies,”  “Dreams and Visions“, and  the naughty “All the Girls in Nylons and Garter Belts.” 

At this point of late Summer or early Fall of 2013,  I am doing a series of “seashell skylines”, mostly urban fantasy scenes in which seashells and other sea-life have mysteriously intruded.  I don’t think I am making any predictions about “earth changes”, or tsunamis hitting major cities,  it’s really just that I like the whimsical apposition of mollusks and skyscrapers, and the idea that maybe nature gets back at us by imitating our civilization, or standing beside it with its own  construction program.

Pictures that are framed and under glass (most all of it smaller than about 8″ by 11″), can be obtained with the existing frame, or as the artwork itself, minus the frame.  I believe all art looks better framed;  at the very least, that’s how viewers are used to looking at a picture and thinking of it as art and not some random display of shape and color.   But sending framed pictures under glass is much more expensive than sending a sheet of paper that’s sandwiched between a couple of other sheets of paper in a large padded manilla envelope.  So, that’s the call of the art lover and collector — whether to purchase it in the frame, or otherwise.

ARRIVAL of the SEA-LIFE  (2013)  approx. 8″x10″.  pen, colored pencil, crayon, and chalk on thick watercolor paper.