MOBY-DICK, page 503

Title: "Away! What possesses thee to this? Make a life-buoy of the coffin, and no more."

10.75 x 7.75 inches
ink, marker and watercolor on found paper
December 22, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 502

Title: At sun-rise this man went from his hammock to his mast-head at the fore; and whether it was that he was not yet half waked from his sleep (for sailors sometimes go aloft in a transition state), whether it was thus with the man, there is now no telling; but, be that as it may, he had not been long at his perch, when a cry was heard - a cry and a rushing - and looking up, they saw a falling phantom in the air...

12 x 7.25 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 21, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 501

Title: "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor's!"

12 x 8 inches
acrylic paint on watercolor paper
December 21, 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.)

MOBY-DICK, page 500

Title: "Oh, ye frozen heavens! look down here. Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines. Here, boy; Ahab's cabin shall be Pip's home henceforth, while Ahab lives. Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings. Come, let's down."

11.75 x 8 inches
ink on watercolor paper
December 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 499

Title: Snap! the overstrained line sagged down in one long festoon; the tugging log was gone.

10.75 x 7.75 inches
acrylic paint on found paper
December 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 498

Title: In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.

9 x 6 inches
acrylic paint, charcoal and ink on found paper
December 19, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 497

Title: "Men," said he, steadily turning upon the crew, as the mate handed him the things he had demanded, "my men, the thunder turned old Ahab's needles..."

12 x 8.25 inches
acrylic paint, collage and ink on found paper and chipboard
December 18, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 496

Title: Deliberately standing before the binnacle, and eyeing the transpointed compasses, the old man, with the sharp of his extended hand, now took the precise bearing of the sun...

8 x 11.5 inches
ink and watercolor on watercolor paper
December 17, 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.)

MOBY-DICK, page 495

Title: The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.

7.75 x 10.75 inches
ink and marker on found paper
December 17, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 494

Title: "A touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again. - Oh Mary! Mary! - boy! boy! boy! - But if I wake thee not to death, old man, who can tell to what unsounded deeps Starbuck's body this day week may sink, with all the crew! Great God, where art thou? Shall I? shall I?"

10.75 x 7.75 inches
acrylic paint and ink on found paper
December 16, 2010

MOBY-DICK, page 493

Title: "Fair for death and doom, - that's fair for Moby Dick."

7.25 x 10.75 inches
acrylic paint and charcoal on found paper
December 15, 2010