Title: Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.
8.5 x 7 inchesink on Bristol boardOctober 1, 2010
(This is the second version of this illustration, and was re-drawn much later. I will post the first version, along with the other alternate versions I did for other pages, after I finish posting all 552 of the Moby-Dick illustrations that were published in my book Moby-Dick in Pictures.)
Title: What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin!
10.75 x 8 inchesacrylic paint and ink on found paperMarch 5, 2010
Title: I remember the first albatross I ever saw.
10.75 x 7.5 inchesink on found paperMarch 3, 2010
Title: ...yet for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.
10.75 x 7.25 inchesacrylic paint and ink on found paperMarch 2, 2010
Title: It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.
10.75 x 7.5 inchescolored pencil on found paperMarch 2, 2010
Title: For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see naught in that brute but the deadliest ill.
6 x 9.25 inchesacrylic paint, charcoal, colored pencil and ink on found paperMarch 1, 2010
Title: Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea...
10.75 x 7.75 inchesacrylic paint on found paperMarch 1, 2010
Title: Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted...
10.75 x 7.75 inchesballpoint pen and ink on found paperFebruary 28, 2010
Title: All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
11 x 7.75 inchesink on found paperFebruary 28, 2010
Title: The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings.
6 x 10 inchesink on found paperFebruary 27, 2010
Title: ...it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time)...
11 x 7.75 inchescolored pencil, ink and marker on found paperFebruary 25, 2010
Title: One of the wild suggestings referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
11 x 7.75 inchesink on found paperFebruary 25, 2010
Title: No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.
7.75 x 11 inchesacrylic paint, ballpoint pen, ink and pencil on found paperFebruary 23, 2010
Title: ...a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them...
11 x 7.75 inchesacrylic paint, ballpoint pen and ink on found paperFebruary 22, 2010
Title: I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul.
8 x 5 inchescolored pencil and ink on found paperFebruary 21, 2010
Title: Jollies? Lord help such jollies! Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God!
7 x 4.25 inchesink and marker on found paperFebruary 21, 2010
Title: Our captain has his birth-mark; look yonder, boys, there's another in the sky — lurid-like, ye see, all else pitch black.
7.5 x 10.75 inchesink and marker on found paperFebruary 21, 2010
Title: Hail, holy nakedness of our dancing girls!
11 x 8.5 inchescollage on chipboard and found paperFebruary 19, 2010
Title: There's naught so sweet on earth — heaven may not match it! — as those swift glances of warm, wild bosoms in the dance, when the over-arboring arms hide such ripe, bursting grapes.
11 x 7.75 inchesink on found paperFebruary 18, 2010
Title: Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it, bell-boy; Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!
9.5 x 7 inchesink and marker on found paperFebruary 16, 2010
Title: I've the sort of mouth for that...
7.75 x 11 inchesink and marker on found paperFebruary 16, 2010
Title: Our captain stood upon the deck / A spy-glass in his hand...
9 x 7.5 inchesacrylic paint, colored pencil and ink on found paperFebruary 15, 2010
Title: Because a laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer...
9 x 6.5 inchesacrylic paint and ink on found paperFebruary 14, 2010
Title: The white whale is their demigorgon.
9.5 x 7 inchesink on found paperFebruary 13, 2010
Title: "I am madness maddened!"
10.5 x 8.5 inchesink on found paperFebruary 12, 2010
Title: "Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow — Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!"
11 x 7.75 inchesmarker on found paperFebruary 10, 2010
Title: "Advance, ye mates! Cross your lances full before me."
11 x 7.75 inchesink and marker on found paperFebruary 10, 2010
Title: "God keep me! — keep us all!" murmured Starbuck, lowly.
7.75 x 9.5 inchesacrylic paint, ink and marker on found paperOctober 31, 2010
(This is the second version of this illustration, and was re-drawn much later. I will post the first version, along with the other alternate versions I did for other pages, after I finish posting all 552 of the Moby-Dick illustrations that were published in my book Moby-Dick in Pictures.)
Title: "...I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
8 x 5 inchescolored pencil and ink on found paperFebruary 9, 2010
Title: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the horn, and round the Norway maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."
7.75 x 11.75 inchesacrylic paint, ballpoint pen, ink and marker on found paperFebruary 7, 2010
Title: "Captain Ahab," said Tashtego, "that white whale must be the same that some call Moby Dick."
11 x 7.75 inchesacrylic paint and ink on found paperFebruary 7, 2010
Title: "Look ye! d'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?" — holding up a broad bright coin to the sun — "it is a sixteen dollar piece, men. D'ye see it?"
8 x 6 inchesacrylic paint and ink on found paperOctober 1, 2010
(This is the second version of this illustration, and was re-drawn much later. I will post the first version, along with the other alternate versions I did for other pages, after I finish posting all 552 of the Moby-Dick illustrations that were published in my book Moby-Dick in Pictures.)
Title: Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger foot-prints — the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
8.25 x 11.5 inchescollage and ink on found paperFebruary 6, 2010
Title: ...but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity...
7 x 4.25 inchesink on found paperFebruary 4, 2010
Title: ...yet that disadvantage is greatly counterbalanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float.
10 x 6.25 inchescolored pencil on found paperFebruary 3, 2010
Title: ...vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters...
11.75 x 7.75 inchesballpoint pen on found paperFebruary 3, 2010
Title: ...for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshly tabernacle...
7.75 x 4.5 inchesacrylic paint and ink on found paperOctober 1, 2010
(This is the second version of this illustration, and was re-drawn much later. I will post the first version, along with the other alternate versions I did for other pages, after I finish posting all 552 of the Moby-Dick illustrations that were published in my book Moby-Dick in Pictures.)
Title: There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea...
7.75 x 6 inchesink and marker on found paperOctober 25, 2010
(This is the second version of this illustration, and was re-drawn much later. I will post the first version, along with the other alternate versions I did for other pages, after I finish posting all 552 of the Moby-Dick illustrations that were published in my book Moby-Dick in Pictures.)
Title: Of modern standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men...
11 x 8 inchesacrylic paint and ink on found paperJanuary 31, 2010
Title: ...so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
10.5 x 8.5 inchesink on found paperJanuary 30, 2010
(This is the second version of this illustration. I will post the first version, along with the other alternate versions I did for other pages, after I finish posting all 552 of the Moby-Dick illustrations that were published in my book Moby-Dick in Pictures.)
Title: But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air...
5 x 8 inchescolored pencil, ink and marker on found paperJanuary 30, 2010
Title: ...while Tashtego, knife in hand, began laying out the circle preliminary to scalping him.
11 x 8 inchescolored pencil, ink and marker on found paperJanuary 29, 2010
