Amelia - La Liberté Guidant le Peuple

After this semester's schoolwork I have completed an astonishing caricature for Amelia. She is depicted as Marianne, the embodiment of French Republicanism, in the pose of La Liberté from the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix. In her right arm (left) Amelia clutches the coat of the French Existentialist novelist Albert Camus. In her left hand (right) Amelia hoists a silver candlestick, which glows with masonic imagery, stolen from the altar at the rear. The setting is the Cathedral of Lyon where the Bishop Myriel, a character in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, generously offers Amelia this silver candlestick in exchange for a promise a moral and honest life. Pink, blue and gold light streams through the brilliant Gothic stained glass windows, as medievalism is allegorically synthesized with modern French Republicanism in a stupendous exhibition of Amelia's charm, literary interests, and personal brilliance.

Restoration of James's Caricature

After learning how to use Adobe Photoshop, I have spent the past week restoring and correcting the mistakes of a poorly scanned image of James's caricature. I will give James a new print of it on his 23rd Birthday.

Here is the former post of James's caricature

Lance as Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Lance commissioned this caricature of himself as Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps.

Alexis de Tocqueville Summer Reading Group

This is a caricature of five of the members in the Jefferson Center's Summer 2010 Alexis de Tocqueville reading group. I am included at the top right.

Teresa the Internet Fox

Teresa is a philosophy student at UT Austin. She is a wily young woman with fiery red hair, whose whose identity is fragmented into a medley of cyberspace personas. In this caricature I aimed to accentuate her pointed nose, large ear, chin, black-rimmed glasses and wry smile. I depicted her as a red fox to better match her hair, and with her laptop to her side with which she is simultaneously in and out of cyberspace.

Artwork of me

Here is a collection of artwork completed at the recent caricature convention featuring my likeness.

CrippleCon Artwork

Here are some drawings which I completed for other caricature

artists at this year's CrippleCon caricature convention:

James "Thomas Moore" Griffin

Cardinal Griffin, the hammer of heretics, the light of the orient, and the arbiter of Christendom.

Here are some pictures which I used for reference in the background detailsThis is the completed drawing in colour and black and white ink.Here are some prepatory sketches in which I planned the form of the composition.James is devout young historically and theologically attentive Baroque gentleman, whose historism has led him to irreversibly indulge in the culture and character of superior times. It is often imagined that the study of history, rather than a mere assembly of chronology and data, is meant to shape ones character- producing a sympathy with the past and those customs and concerns associated with their times. James's intellectual adventurism has lead him unto a path into the premodern era of higher culture and more splendid devotion, from which few can suitably follow and he cannot be expected to return unchanged. In this composition, I attempted to portray James as he truly is, situated in the era of the baroque Ancien Regime, rather than interned in our present circumstances which are wholly alien to him. As such, James is depicted in a heroic stance of conquerors and kings. James is a cardinal, soldier, and law-giver. With one hand he gives order and harmony to Asia. With the other, he attentively grasps the hilt of his sword as he pivots his body towards the West and his perpetual devotion to the Catholic faith. Although the composition is devided in two, representing James's divided intellectual and ethnic heritage, their remains a continuity of devotion and fidelity which follows from the kowtowing Asian businessman at the far right unto the adoration of the splendid Eucharist at the far left. Let all who see this know, that James hast cast out the demons of modernity unto the outer darkness, and restored harmony, filiality, and devotion to the world! Praise Jahmes.