Dear friends and Patrons, I wanted to give you a little behind the scenes peek at my research for Riddled with Spots. None of these ~38+ images or styles appear anywhere in the book, but I promised to let you in on my process, so here are some of my notes:
Two Men Hunting An Anxious Moment
~Early Spring Landscape, via Edmund Elisha Case
Patiently Awaiting Shipwreck
~ Study in Yellow and Gold, via Harper Pennington (1854-1920).
The New Novel, Riddled with Spots, via Homer
The New Novel
~Alexander Hamilton Juggling Riddles
~Shrove Tuesday, via Walter Blackman
~The Sporting Gallery, via W.H.D. Koerner
~The Copley Family, via John Singleton Copley
~Hunter’s Cabin Door
George Brinton McClellan In Defense of Trees
~Portrait of a Lady in Pink
Riddled Globe spotted in antique store.
~ An American marble bust of George Washington.
Spotted Man
Detail: “James Monroe has Spotted His Pants”
~Emblems of Peace still life feat. Riddled with Spots.
~Henry Clay, via Charles Wesley Jarvis, 1854.
This must be the spot
~Henry Clay (1777-1852), via Charles Wesley Jarvis, 1854.
~Captain Samuel Packard.
~Emblems of Peace feat. Riddled with Spots
Quantum CP-Reversal
~An Impromptu Affair, via -Frederick James
Moonlight Hunters on Mount Mansfield
~Moonlight Hunters on Mount Mansfield, via Sanford Robinson Gifford.
Gibraltar, Riddled with Spots
Gibraltar, Riddled with Spots
His Only Comfort
~An Impromptu Affair, via -Frederick James
~Genesee Scenery via Thomas Cole
~An Impromptu Affair, via -Frederick James
Plowden Weston takes a Lesson in Bubble Gum
Fishing for Innes
Hunting with Franz Wilhelm Schiertz
The Fruits Have Been Infected With Riddles
George and Belle Townsley Smith
George Brinton McClellan In Defense of Trees
Riddlers Sail Gibraltar
Riddlers Sail Gibraltar
~Riddle Mobile, via Ernest Opper
~The Bravo, via Victor Nehlig
Plowden Weston takes a Lesson in Bubble Gum
The Weight of questions
~Elizabeth Fayles Payne and Her Aunt, via James Earl
Elizabeth Fayles Payne holding a really spotty metaphysical poetry book.
Robert Anderson, In Defense of Trees, 1861, via Powell.
See Spots Run
