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All images and content are © 2006 Richard E "Skip" Ploss. None may be used without the written consent of the owner/creator.

If Picasso Were a Fish
"Picasso":
The Picasso illustration from the book created using a WACOM tablet with pressure sensative stylus and a Macintosh computer. The forms are representative of many in work and the "fisherman" in black and gray is an elaboration of one of his "Three Musicians" (1925).
"Klee":
The illustration for the Paul Klee page of the book. The fish in this case is an outlined homage to "The Goldfish" painted by Klee in 1925. The cubes appear as a theme in several Klee paintings.
"Whistler":
As "If Picasso Were a Fish" evolved, I wanted to show a variety of "looks". Although many of artists represented in the book did, at one time or another, paint works that were similar, I wanted variety. This particular piece owes its style to two pictures painted by Whistler in 1865, "Sea and Rain" and "Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville".
If I Had a Gift
The Spendid Purple Cod of Cairo
This is the opening "shot" of "If I Had a Gift" which is based on a birthday sheet created for a second grader in 2005 bu yours truly.
Is it a boy or girl?
One of the illustrations which were created specifically so that boys would identify with the child as being a y and girls would identify the child as being a girl. So far so good. In three visits to schools where the students ranged in age from 3-11 for the most part boy thought the picture was of a boy and girls thought it a girl.
Abstracts (release scheduled for September '06)

What's in the picture?
Long ears and a fuzzy tail,
are in the picture.

My next book, due in September, is about art again but this time it is about abstracts created by me. It is based on a day of art games I played with the students of the Hawthorne Cedar Knolls school when I visited there during the summer of 2006.
The text is all Haiku.