One from the archive: A quick ink sketch of a beaky, one-legged beggar man. At one point I tried to “clean it up”, and got rid of all those sketchy lines floating around him. The drawing lost 90% of its vitality and animation. I posted another sketch from this series a while back.

Merry Mishmash, as my hilarious older relatives always say! It might be a little early, but good ol’ Klaus won’t mind if you join him for a drink or two during the interim.

Illustration of the Phoenix rising from its ashes for Padraic Colum’s The Boy Apprenticed To An Enchanter, published by Whole Spirit Press in 2008.