Layin' in the weeds -

"Growing on Trees"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves ..."
- Euripides

Pet, pet, there, there -

"Another Strange Fruit"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... strange is our situation here upon earth ..."
- Albert Einstein

Illustration Friday: Perspective -

"Perspective"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective ..."
- Arnold Beisser

Thursday Challenge: Sky -

"Perryville Sky, January 2010"
digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... there is a privacy about it
which no other season gives you ...
in spring, summer and fall people sort of have
an open season on each other;
only in the winter, in the country,
can you have longer, quiet stretches when
you can savor belonging to yourself ..."
- Ruth Stout

Smile, though your heart is aching -

"Valve Wheel"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it ..."
- Albert Smith

Comic book heroes -

"BANG!"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... heat up your weapons and keep 'em heated ..."
- Sgt. Rock

... and they will come -

"Fuel for Training Camp Dreams"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I led the league in 'Go Get 'Em Next Time' ..."
- Bob Uecker

NEW from The Selfportrait Series -

"Selfportrait of the Artist in a Stylin' Jacket"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... day has put on his jacket, and around
his burning bosom buttoned it with stars ..."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Believe, like I believe -

"Do You Believe in Magic"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... if you believe in magic, come along with me
we'll dance until morning 'til there's just you and me ..."
- Lovin' Spoonful

Illustration Friday: Propagate -

"A Fruitful Multiplication"
digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... when we love - we grow ..."
- Unknown

Thursday Challenge: Old Equipment -

"Zenith Data Systems"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
- click on image to view full size -

"... 640K ought to be enough for anybody ..."
- Bill Gates, 1981

Out, damn spot -

"The Spot"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... as people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears ..."
- John Locke

Two plus two -

"An Exuberant Geometry"
manipulated digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... the human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry ..."
- Louis de Bernieres

Nightwings -

"Slide Two"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time ..."
- Deborah Chaskin

HAPPY BALLANTINE's DAY -

"Selfportrait of the Artist Taking Back His Fair Share of the Day"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... thou art to me a delicious torment ..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coming home -

"Welcoming Committee"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing ..."
- William Shakespeare

Illustration Friday: Adrift -

"Adrift"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... I heard the old, old men say, 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters' ..."
- William Butler Yeats

Thursday Challenge: Romantic -

"Leighlund's Valentine for Poppa"
digitally manipulated images & drawing

"... the best feelings are those that
have no words to describe them ..."
- Michelle Hammersley

Penmanship -

"Dotting the I's and Crossing the T's"
manipulated digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... a man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments ..."
- Philip Dormer Stanhope

NEW from The Birdhouse Series -

"Birdhouse XIX"
manipulated digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... what bird so sings, yet so does wail,
O 'tis the ravished nightingale,
jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu, she cries,
and still her woes at midnight rise ..."
- John Lily

Spells and magik -

"Sorcerer's Keep"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... this castle has a pleasant seat; the air
nimbly and sweetly recommends itself,
unto our gentle sense ..."
- Shakespeare

A comfortable jacket, too -

"The Patternmaker"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker; what the second duty is no one has yet discovered ..."
- Oscar Wilde

Anchor home -

"Full and By"
digital painting by Mick Mather

"... the dolphin wheels, the sea cow snorts,
and unseen mermaids pearly song
comes bubbling up, the weeds among ..."
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Illustration Friday: Muddy -

"A Walk in the Mud"
digital collage by Mick Mather
- click image to view full size -

"... muddy water, let stand, becomes clear ..."
- Lao Tzu

Thursday Challenge: Something Different -

"Selfportrait of the Artist: One-of-a-Kind"

digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... all through the day
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
all through the night
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine ..."
- George Harrison

Travelogue -

"Smilin' Jack and the Foreign Correspondent"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... individuality is freedom lived ..."
- John Dos Passos

NEW from The Mister Existence Series -

"Sister Existence at the Dog Show"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... howling dogs herald the wind god who has summoned death, and the spirits of the dead will be taken ..."
- Unknown

The neighbors -

"Over the Road"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... your own safety is at stake when
your neighbor's house is ablaze ..."
- Horace