For anyone with a taste for linguistics, it’s easy to see that grammar is glamorous, but not everyone may realize that these word...

        Having glorified pie in my last post, today seems a good day to look at how a handful of artists have explored the theme of glutt...

        Here’s a lavish edition of Lydia Maria Child’s classic 1844 poem about Thanksgiving, illustrated with wood block prints.  Yes, I’...

        As we near Thanksgiving, here’s a wood block print of the harvest.  Salvatore Zofrea (Italy/Australia, b. 1946) has a distinctive...

        It’s time for some more fantasy poetry, and today I’m looking at Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish Romantic poet.  Like many of the R...

        Art Show Season is in full swing, and I want to start getting out the word about a number of upcoming shows in which I’ll be part...

        Here is my newest piece, illustrating a hercinia.  The hercinia is a bird with feathers that glow and shine at night like fire, ...

        Wassily (or Vasily) Kandinsky (Russia/France, 1866-1944) is generally considered the creator of the first purely abstract work in...

        Today is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation’s kick-off in Germany.  (See the previous post for more on Martin Lu...