Always Has Been Oil on canvas 16x24 #oilpainting #painting #art

"There he is: royal Dublin fusiliers. Redcoats. Too showy. That must be why the women go after them. Uniform." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

—Are there any letters for me? he asked. While the postmistress searched a pigeonhole he gazed at the recruiting poster with soldiers of all arms on parade: and held the tip of his baton against his nostrils, smelling freshprinted rag paper. #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters

"Ah yes, in the dead sea floating on his back, reading a book with a parasol open. Couldn’t sink if you tried: so thick with salt. Because the weight of the water, no, the weight of the body in the water is equal to the weight of the what? " #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters #joyce

A 2 x 3.5 inch painting of the courtyard at Mission Taqueria in Philadelphia. #watercolor #painting #art

"Brady’s cottages a boy for the skins lolled, his bucket of offal linked, smoking a chewed fagbutt." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #thelotuseaters

"Might manage a sketch. By Mr and Mrs L. M. Bloom. Invent a story for some proverb. Which? Time I used to try jotting down on my cuff what she said dressing. Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"Asquat on the cuckstool he folded out his paper, turning its pages over on his bared knees. Something new and easy. No great hurry. Keep it a bit." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"He went out through the backdoor into the garden: stood to listen towards the next garden. No sound. Perhaps hanging clothes out to dry. The maid was in the garden." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"She looked back at him, mewing. Wants to go out. Wait before a door sometime it will open. Let her wait. Has the fidgets. Electric. Thunder in the air. " #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

A small painting i made in the gallery of the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia

"Row with her in the XL Café about the bracelet. Wouldn’t eat her cakes or speak or look. Saucebox. He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

" What was that about some young student and a picnic? He creased out the letter at his side, reading it slowly as he chewed, sopping another die of bread in the gravy and raising it to his mouth." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"—There’s a smell of burn, she said. Did you leave anything on the fire? —The kidney! he cried suddenly." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"—Met him what? he asked. —Here, she said. What does that mean? He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"—Met him what? he asked. —Here, she said. What does that mean? He leaned downward and read near her polished thumbnail." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"She set the brasses jingling as she raised herself briskly, an elbow on the pillow. He looked calmly down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a shegoat’s udder." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin #mollybloom

"He let the bloodsmeared paper fall to her and dropped the kidney amid the sizzling butter sauce. Pepper. He sprinkled it through his fingers ringwise from the chipped eggcup." #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses

"But he delayed to clear the chair: her striped petticoat, tossed soiled linen: and lifted all in an armful on to the foot of the bed." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"No, not like that. A barren land, bare waste. Vulcanic lake, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth. No wind could lift those waves, grey metal, poisonous foggy waters. Brimstone they called it raining down" #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #ulysses

Another tiny watercolor painting. #watercolor #painting #oceancity

A business card sized watercolor painting of my little guy. #watercolor #painting

"Olives cheaper: oranges need artificial irrigation. Every year you get a sending of the crop. Your name entered for life as owner in the book of the union. Can pay ten down and the balance in yearly instalments. Bleibtreustrasse 34, Berlin, W. 15." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso

"For another: a constable off duty cuddling her in Eccles’ Lane. They like them sizeable. Prime sausage. O please, Mr Policeman, I’m lost in the wood." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso

"He held the page aslant patiently, bending his senses and his will, his soft subject gaze at rest. The crooked skirt swinging, whack by whack by whack." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso

"He halted before Dlugacz’s window, staring at the hanks of sausages, polonies, black and white. Fifteen multiplied by. The figures whitened in his mind, unsolved: displeased, he let them fade." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso

A business card sized watercolor painting i did at the Rodin gallery in Philly. #watercolor #watercolorpainting #art #minipaintings

"There he is, sure enough, my bold Larry, leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso

A recent oil painting. Overlook Park Walking Trail Oil on canvas 16"x12" #oilpainting #artist #painting #landscape #landscapepainters #pleinair

"He crossed to the bright side, avoiding the loose cellarflap of number seventyfive. The sun was nearing the steeple of George’s church. Be a warm day I fancy. Specially in these black clothes feel it more." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #dublin

"Thursday: not a good day either for a mutton kidney at Buckley’s. Fried with butter, a shake of pepper. Better a pork kidney at Dlugacz’s." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso

"Mr Bloom watched curiously, kindly the lithe black form. Clean to see: the gloss of her sleek hide, the white button under the butt of her tail, the green flashing eyes. He bent down to her, his hands on his knees." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso #leopoldbloom

"He turned from the tray, lifted the kettle off the hob and set it sideways on the fire. It sat there, dull and squat, its spout stuck out. Cup of tea soon. Good. Mouth dry. The cat walked stiffly round a leg of the table with tail on high." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #calypso

A recently Plein air painting. Oil on canvas 16" x 12"

"He took the hilt of his ashplant, lunging with it softly, dallying still. Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

Ive been working on this engraving for over a month and it's finally ready to pull an edition. #engraving #art #printmaking #artist #drawing

"A corpse rising saltwhite from the undertow, bobbing a pace a pace a porpoise landward. There he is. Hook it quick. Pull. Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. We have him. Easy now." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #proteus #illustration

"He lay back at full stretch over the sharp rocks, cramming the scribbled note and pencil into a pocket, his hat tilted down on his eyes. That is Kevin Egan’s movement I made, nodding for his nap, sabbath sleep." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"Bet she wears those curse of God stays suspenders and yellow stockings, darned with lumpy wool. Talk about apple dumplings, piuttosto. Where are your wits?" #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"A side eye at my Hamlet hat. If I were suddenly naked here as I sit? I am not. Across the sands of all the world, followed by the sun’s flaming sword, to the west, trekking to evening lands." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"His speckled body ambled ahead of them and then loped off at a calf’s gallop. The carcass lay on his path. He stopped, sniffed, stalked round it, brother, nosing closer, went round it, sniffling rapidly like a dog all over the dead dog’s bedraggled fell." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"Water cold soft. When I put my face into it in the basin at Clongowes. Can’t see! Who’s behind me? Out quickly, quickly! Do you see the tide flowing quickly in on all sides, sheeting the lows of sand quickly, shellcocoacoloured?" #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"Dane vikings, torcs of tomahawks aglitter on their breasts when Malachi wore the collar of gold. A school of turlehide whales stranded in hot noon, spouting, hobbling in the shallows." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"He climbed over the sedge and eely oarweeds and sat on a stool of rock, resting his ashplant in a grike." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"How the head centre got away, authentic version. Got up as a young bride, man, veil, orangeblossoms, drove out the road to Malahide. Did, faith. Of lost leaders, the betrayed, wild escapes. Disguises, clutched at, gone, not here. Spurned lover." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"Not this Monsieur, I said. Most licentious custom. Bath a most private thing. I wouldn’t let my brother, not even my own brother, most lascivious thing. Green eyes, I see you. Fang, I feel. Lascivious people." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"His feet marched in sudden proud rhythm over the sand furrows, along by the boulders of the south wall. He stared at them proudly, piled stone mammoth skulls." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #nestor

"I was in Paris; boul’ Mich’, I used to. Yes, used to carry punched tickets to prove an alibi if they arrested you for murder somewhere. Justice." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

"You prayed to the Blessed Virgin that you might not have a red nose. You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street." #ulysses #jamesjoyce #illustration #proteus

I've been working on an engraving of Bloom and Molly. I'm hoping to print a small edition and sell them! For the first time ever you can buy some Cracked Looking Glass illustrations! This is just the first proof. #ulysses #illustration #bloomsday2025 #engraving #art #printmaking