How to Make Tea

I made this to show people how to make tea, and I also wanted to do something fun on the tea side of the Darjeeling Café. Even though we're concentrating a lot of our efforts on wine, trying to turn our restaurant into the wine destination of Central Virginia, we don't want to forget where we came from. After all, this whole thing started with tea.

We're much more like a European tea room than anything else: come in for some tea, stay for lunch, hang out with friends, before you know it, it's time to enjoy a great beer or wine, then it's dinner time. That's how I lived when I was in Europe (not every day of course, but often), and I think that luxury is missing in people's lives here in the USA.

St. Patrick's at the Darjeeling Café in Staunton

I made this little type treatment for a sign we hung at the Darjeeling Café on St. Patrick's Day. It was a quickie, but I like the way it came out. I would change the bend in the arrow to a shamrock shape if I had to do it all over again.

I am a lab researcher. We work on particles containing anti-tuberculosis drugs, meant for inhalation by patients whose lungs are infected. Our lab's particles are not 'nano'-particles as the current fashion dictates, and a potential collaborator recently made a (good-natured) joke about how the size of our particles reminds him of flying elephants. If you permit, I'd like to answer him with scientific rationale as well as your poetic image,  modified as attached.

This is the great email I got today.

Skull Maze

This is another maze I did for the upcoming Murder Bros. package. I think people are going to really like this. It's going to be a really cool thing you can get at our shows.

Knife Heart Maze

This is part of a rock and roll maze thing I'm doing for the Murder Bros. It will be awesome. There will be a CD in it, and we'll sell them at shows.
If you want, you can print this one out here, and try it. If you have fun, let me know.

Staunton Clocktower Maze

Climb up the Staunton Clocktower in this maze.
If you have fun with it, let me know.
Thanks.

Elephant on Stress in America

If you click the image, you'll probably be able to read the speech balloons.
I thought this little comic was funny. At the Darjeeling Café, our mascot is an elephant, and we want to put a little magazine together that extends the Darjeeling Café's brand and message of well-being and thriving lifestyle, and that would include a comic from time to time with an anthropomorphic elephant. We are constantly worried about people thinking that it's a republican thing, but I've resigned myself to it. Artists' work is often misunderstood because it does not really belong to the artist once it is thrust out into the world.

Anyway. It's anti-circus and animal violence and pro therapy. I hope you like it.