Season's Greetings!
'Tis the season... for Apple and Rainbows. This year, in honor of Isaac Newton's Birthday on December 25, I spent my studio time in December creating drawings for the Twelve Days of Newton.
As you look through these, it might be nice to know two things:
- Newton had a Pomeranian dog named Diamond. Apocryphally, the story is that Diamond accidentally set fire to twenty years' worth of lab notes by upsetting a candle, a circumstance to which Newton responded "O Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done."
- According to legend (once again) Newton had a cat named Spithead, and he is credited
with inventing the cat door for him. Newton cut a hole in his door and covered it
with a scrap of fabric so Spithead could go in and out without Newton
having his work on light interrupted. (BTW, Spithead is coastal place name in England, nothing to do with saliva.)
Without further ado:
First day of Newton: Not exactly a pear tree, but a whiff of Brooklyn memories...
Second day of Newton: Let it snow? Funnily, I drew this before we got our dumping.
Fourth day of Newton: This isn't going so well, is it?
Sixth day of Newton: This is much easier.
Seventh day of Newton: But the fourth day of Hanukkah? Not sure how the math works..
Eighth day of Newton: Try to be neat!
Ninth day of Newton:Those seasonal TV specials are great!
Tenth day of Newton: Solstice comes but once a year (well, twice, technically).
Eleventh day of Newton: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday!
Twelfth day of Newton: Nobody knows what Boxing Day is, not even Isaac Newton.
