Image size: 15 x 22
Paper size: 18 x 25
Price: $65.00

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"Dragon Slayer", was inspired by a visit of Elijah to my studio where he is free to paint on his little easel, watch cartoons, read from my collection of books, dress up in one of my many costumes, or play with one of the swords in my collection. I had given Eli a little wooden sword and he loved it. He would take it with him everywhere, he even slept with it. And on this day he had it with him while we were both quietly painting and listening to Mozart playing in the background. While unknown to me he discovered a cricket that had crawled into the studio. He ever so stealthily picked up his sword and...whack! Chopped the poor cricket to pieces. I wrote about this incident in the diary that my wife and I had kept since his birth, with it I drew a little cartoon of Eli fighting this giant cricket. And this event inspired this painting of Eli defending his castle against the dreaded dragon, not a real dragon, but to a boy, an imaginary dragon can be just as real.