"Mr. Moonlight"

 The model in my college drawing class had slightly elongated features and a warm benevolent smile. During a break, I decided to play upon those features further distorting his forehead and his marvelous chin. After several successive drawings, I started to curve these features in order to fit them on the page. Suddenly it hit me: "This guy looks The Man in the Moon!" A month or so later my teenage niece was paging through my sketchbook and came upon these drawings. Quite excited, she proclaimed "It's Mr. Moonlight!" The name stuck. The drawing also stuck because she took one of the line drawings on newsprint and stuck it over her bed - and there it stayed throughout her teenage years - I believe it even went to college. I noticed it one day - old yellowed and frayed, took the original back to the studio and did a full color composition which I presented to her and her husband as a Christmas gift. What you see is a copy of the original which still hangs over her bed.

Large (16" x 16")$175
Small (8" x 8")$85