Commission for Bob and Tracy Bosworth. I went a little more folk-artsy then I have before, but everyone was pleased with the effect.

For those of you not living in Maryland, Assateague is a barrier island a few miles from Ocean City. The island is perhaps most famous for its population of “wild” horses that will none the less root through your tent for food if given the chance and will stand about placidly by the surf to the delight of tourists.

24″ X 36″, Acrylics and colored pencils on stretched watercolor paper.

I like cephalopods, if that wasn’t obvious. I plan on doing a series of little collage paintings with the common theme of aquatic oddities; the one below is about 4″ x 5″. The copper-color is a metalic pigmint, the neat-factor of which really doesn’t come across on a monitor.

Thank you, Don, for being a good sport.

How to make Buddha Punch:
1 part Rhine Wine
1 cup Light Rum
1 cup Orange juice
1/2 cup Lemon juice
1/2 cup Cointreau
1/2 oz. Kirshwasser
1 oz. Sugar syrup
1 750-ml. Champagne
Lime Slices

Mix ingredients in a chilled punch bowl, with a block of ice. Add champagne before serving. Garnish with lime slices.

When the apocalypse comes about, you’ll wish you were this happy.

A special thanks to Matt Merchant for posing for me despite the technical difficulties.

How to make yourself your very own Zombie: 1 part white rum, 1 part golden rum, 1 part dark rum, 1 part apricot brandy, 1 part pineapple juice, 1 part papaya juice, ½ part 151-proof rum, dash of grenadine or other syrup. Mix ingredients other than the 151 in a shaker with ice. Pour into glass and top with the high-proof rum.

Something I’m still tweaking here and there. Fanny Campbell was a woman that disguised herself as a man, signed herself on as a sailor, staged a mutiny and became captain of a ship, then sailed down to Cuba to bust her man out of prison. After the prison break, she and her future husband become privateers (i.e. government sanctioned pirates) on the side of the Americans during the revolutionary war. You can get the longer version of her story here.

Mary I of England was half-sister to the considerably more amiable Elizabeth I. Mary earned her rather gruesome nickname after she had several hundred religious dissenters burned at the stake during her five-year reign.

How to make a Bloody Mary: 3 parts vodka, 6 parts tomato juice, 1 part lemon juice. Add dashes of Worcestershire Sauce, Tabasco , salt and pepper into highball glass, then pour all ingredients into highball with ice cubes. Stir gently. Garnish with celery, salt, lemon wedge and olives (optional).