Mary's Book Leaves NH for NYC

Finally got these pics taken so Mary's book can be mailed to Aya in NYC on my way to the airport Wednesday. Fall apples & garlic on top with an apple for Aya as the collab below. Ebony pencil & acrylic paint with a touch of white Prismacolor highlighting.

I'm off to Detroit to visit Mary. Ellen's book is going with me. Her book's already been to Mary's once. It'll be there again, but this time I'll be filling it :-)

More in Mike's Big Book

Top image: "Potatoes wishing for more expressive eyes." Really, they do, you know :-)

Bottom image: More garlic & a potato. What can I say? The garden is almost over, I swear. But while it consumes my life, it permeates my art...

Both are acrylic paint, colored pencil, Crayola (kids) marker & black Pilot pen. I am going hog wild with acrylics lately, as part of my mixed media stuff. Much as I love water soluable pens for water washes, they bleed thru Moleskine paper something fierce while acrylic does not. So I'm trying to use the water soluable washes very sparingly, while I compensate with acrylics.

Collabs, Coming & Going

Top image: I added a little Capt. Ahab Moby Dick Pepper Sauce to Andrea's whale bones. Mmm, now those are some serious ribs, HA!

Bottom image: Aya's getting homegrown garlic. There's a lot of it in Mike's book now. Hope he likes garlic! Click here to see what I made for his pocket. I posted it once already, with description, as part of my "Creative Every Day" participation & don't feel like uploading again, so please forgive my lazy diversion :-)