The Small Cricket's Tall Tale

September: this is the time of year when crickets try to outdo each other telling stories of dubious validity. This little fellow: Napoleon is his name, is the loudest in the barnyard. Why is he singing from the top an old pile of cow dung when he used to sing at La Scala with the great Maria Callas? C'mon Monsieur Napoleon, we are all ears!

image © 2011 Rob Dunlavey

The skeptical Rooster

the gullible Cow

The Heron, who is nobody's fool!

Scruffies!

I've been playing around drawing/doodling this character lately.

Is it a rat, opossum, hedgehog, a lowland streaked tenrec?

And what stories does she have in store for us?

She seems rather hapless and a bit forlorn. A dreamer.

Just like me!

locked out!

sketches for Bayard Press: Rififi and Azimut
Pascale Guyon-Galet. art director

Hazel? That's a nice name. Hazel seems to have found a friend!

Doodlebirds

These done during church on Sept. 11th, 2011

The Reef

"09-03-11a"
© 2011 Rob Dunlavey

All pictures are rooted in the real world, even imaginary ones like this. On some level they all tease or provoke meaning out our experience of life. So even though this is a predictably melodramatic and trivial scene, we can avail ourselves of the bleak prospect and the tiny essential lives of the birds on the cliff.  That's the concept and because it's a picture and we can behold it, it becomes a tool… if you have the time and the need.

Crystal Cities Exhibit: Wellesley 2011

Here are installation photos of my new exhibit at the Wellesley Library. I have forty painting on view. The show is up until Sept 30. There will be a reception on Wednesday, Sept 28th, 6-9 P.M.
I hope you can make it.

To find out more about Crystal Cities go here for a complete gallery.
Or go here to preview and purchase a book.