You know, I do like obsessively keeping old work of mine, even if I am terrible at organizing it, because I think between 2006 ish and nowish I got somewhat better at Illustrator and Photoshop and stuff. (The latter link is a work-in-progress teaser for a print project for Spoons'n'Copic's living room that I am having lots of weekend fun with)

Siamese Profile, Lemon on a Pink Plate, Philippine Shells

Siamese Cat Profile Demo 4" wide 9B graphite pencil on sketchbook paper. Illustration for How to Draw a Siamese Cat Profile . Ari posed. He was a good boy and posed for a good twenty minutes looking at the kids playing in the hallway, giving me his gorgeous profile for more than one stage. Sweet cat muse! Lemon on Pink Plate 5" x 7" approx. Holbein oil pastels on sketchbook paper. ...

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Couldn't be blamed for not guessing that she was a child-wife from Tulip Texas. "Plain broke our hearts when she ran off like she done " the horse doctor repeated. "She had no cause. All the housework was done by her daughters. Lulamae could just take it easy: fuss in front of mirrors and wash her hair. Our own cows our own garden chickens pigs: son that woman got positively fat. While her ...

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Of the population and it didn't in historical retrospect seem out of line. People tended to extremes and hope was a very mild extreme when faith became impossible while despair was easy and all the way down the other end of the scale. He pounded his fist on the console hard enough to hurt his hand. "Tarin Bul" had given in to despair yet had died with slight hope. Qwin Zhang had risked everything...

Series called cascades. But you need thousands of centrifuges to make up a cascade. " "If they've be

Through the whole province? Then further? How about the entire region?' 'That won't happen. ' 'No it won't because the governor will raise an army. Thankfully there are more of us than them so we can win no matter how terrible their weapons are. But that will mean bloodshed on a scale we've never known. ' He wanted to beat his fists against the nearest stall. 'How did they get that gun? Do you ...

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Will not hold the drink. " While we talked Pons was gathering to my bedside my clothes for the day. "Drink on my master " he answered. "It won't hurt you. You'll die with a sound stomach. " "You mean mine is an iron-lined stomach?" I wilfully misunderstood him. "I mean--" he began with a quick peevishness then broke off as he realized my teasing and with a pout of his withered lips draped my new ...

And loosing her hold rose to my feet and stood with head averted that I might not behold her. Presen

Is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother. 3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning that we should love one another. 3:12 Not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil and his brother's righteous. 3:13 Marvel not my brethren if the world hate you. 3:14 We know that we have passed from death ...

The lights were bright after the dimness of the club. I blinked against it. Willie looked rosy cheek

Eyes and looking mortally sheepish Jean-Marie reappeared and went ostentatiously about his business. He was the only unhappy member of the party that sat down that night to supper. As for the Doctor he was radiant. He thus sang the requiem of the treasure:-- 'This has been on the whole a most amusing episode ' he said. 'We are not a penny the worse--nay we are immensely gainers. Our philosophy ...

With bad sinus trouble do this *Sensible* people go off to a roped-off enclosure where they can watc

Mean?" "Well his name where he was from you know. " "Nothing. It turned out he had some I. D. which proved to be fake. So the police are very interested. He mumbled something about Chicago. Weird!" Johnston mouthed the last word as if it were some important secret message as he went back to the recovery room desk. Bellows went over and checked his gastrectomy patient. Vital signs were stable. ...

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Was it pulled me out of the hole. "Foundation" appeared in the May 1942 issue of Astounding and the succeeding story "Bridle and Saddle " in the June 1942 issue. After that there was only the routine trouble of writing the stories. Through the remainder of the decade John Campbell kept my nose to the grindstone and made sure he got additional Foundation stories. "The Big and the Little" was in ...