January 14, 2007
A Milestone
I am officially a professional illustrator! (Actually, my first job in this business was in 1989, doing caricatures at Astroworld, an amusement park in Houston, Texas, but I don’t count that cause it was so long ago.) I got a commission before the Christmas holidays, was waiting around for approval of the basic idea, got it the other week, delivered the product this past week, and immediately got two more commissions! One is of the despicable George Bush looking for the middle class like he looked for the weapons of mass destruction; another is of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln; and the last is a little cartoon mole. Oh, by the way, there’s another painting in the Small Fall series. Real loose, which is what I’ve been going for. Yes, yes, I know it’s not fall anymore. It’s hardly winter, either, at least here in the Northeast…
