This piece went through many iterations before becoming a cheerful catfish- his whiskers resting lightly above the collarbones. I can not sufficiently emphasize how well he looks on the body, and how well he makes the body look.
This one is unbelievably elegant, and clean-cut, and ready to wear to your grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. Its still cool enough to wear with jeans and a shirt, but I think this one wants clean jeans, without holes in the knees.
The chaos of color and form here is reminiscent of children's books about the beginning of the world. Do you remember the movie Fantasia? And for one piece ( I can't remember which) they did a sort of abstraction of the beginning of the world, with volcanoes, and then earthquakes as the continents divided up and hit each other? That's what I'm talking about. about 3/4 of an inch wide.