04-29-14. Gargoyles.

04-28-14. "Moonbeam McSwine", a P-51D Mustang WW2 fighter airplane.

04-27-14. Knuckles of my left hand.

04-26-14. "Container Ship", a 2005 painting by Joe Zucker.

04-25-14. "The New Colossus", a 2012 sculpture of a rat by Bruce High Quality Foundation.

04-24-14. Haircut drawing by Raymond Pettibon, c1986.

04-23-14. Boys holding jars of fireflies in a Monon Trail mural in Indianapolis.

04-22-14. Young woman playing a keyboard.

04-21-14. Maxwell's snail bath toy.

Muhallabia Bee (139)

"Muhallabia Bee (139)", oil on canvas, 24x24". For sale on Etsy.

Muhallabia is a milky, rose-water-flavored rice pudding that is popular in Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East. I prepared the pudding so that I could taste it for the first time and use it as a model for this painting. I also cooked a dish of mujadara (lentils, onions and rice), which can be seen on the plate in the upper right of the painting. My goal for this piece was to find a connection between two randomly selected topics: Lebanon and insects. I chose a recipe for muhallabia that includes honey in the topping. I chose a honeybee as an appealing insect attracted to the honey and the rosy fragrance of the two small glasses of pudding. The table setting is meant to evoke a waterfront cafe in Beirut.

This painting represents Libanon-Blau, a blue hue that is color #139 in Naomi Kuno's Colorscape book.

04-20-14. Daylily 'Girlish Laughter' (genus Hemerocallis).

04-19-14. A scrunchie that I rarely use.

04-18-14. Maxwell playing with a toy oven today at the Fashion Mall in Indianapolis.

04-17-14. A mourning cloak butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa), found by @dendroica a few days ago.

04-16-14. Star Wars 1977 soundtrack LPs.

04-15-14. "Notepad", a 2008 artwork by Sarah Sze.

04-14-14. "Salt Shaker", a 1931 painting by Stuart Davis.

04-13-14. A paper crane that I just folded from very old origami paper.

04-12-14. Pony shrug - I'm out of ideas. I really don't know what to do.

04-11-14. One of our forks.

04-10-14. Jellyfish.

04-09-14. Magic Fountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona.

04-08-14. "Assorted Dehydrated Marshmallow Bits".

04-07-14. Maxwell at Saraga International Grocery in Marion Co., Indiana.

04-06-14. "Moose", a 2013 woodcut by Alex Katz.

04-05-14. Harold and I like to give each other butter fudge on special occasions.

04-04-14. Spats.

Special Bulletin: Random Art Material Generator

I'm posting this right away because I've been searching for *years* for something that would do this, and I finally found a solution. I like random generators. I especially like them when they're art related. I also was hoping to find a big giant list of possible art materials, or just materials in general that can be used to make stuff. So anyway, I made this link to access random items from Boston Museum of Fine Art's CAMEO art materials database: http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/special:random

If this helps anyone out there, let me know.
http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/special:rand

04-03-14. "Nunchucks", a 2004 sculpture by Sanford Biggers.

04-02-14. Whirling dervishes, or Mevlevi Sema.

04-01-14. Leaves of our pothos with Eclectus parrots from its native Solomon Islands.