Category: Avant-Garde

  • Knight Lowering Visor

    Freddy continues his tireless pursuit of his current favorite subject. Here is another knight, this one reaching up to lower his visor.

  • Roadrunner Knight

    I credit Narnia with my son Freddy’s sudden awakening to all things medieval, armored, and sword-wielding. Ever since he got his first look at Sir Peter Wolfbane, the knight obsession has spread: Playmobil knights, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, books on fencing, etc. Susan and I let him know that, according to the book 100 Things You…

  • Chivalrous Valentine’s Day

    After days of reading aloud the St. George vs. the Dragon story (from a kid’s version of Spenser’s Faerie Queene), I asked Freddy to make a valentine card. Here’s what I got. Open this card and it says “LOVE” inside.

  • Lamb-Griffin!!!

    An especially spirited rendering of a mythological beast, or, in Freddy’s words, “something God did not make.” Click to enlarge.