Boston Globe OP-ED, “Pineapple Bed”.

Heather Hopp-Bruce (AD) on the Op-Ed page was hoping I might cast a positive depiction of the sturdy, stately, Pineapple bed as a comfort to generations of the author’s family rather than a resting place for the very ill and the dying. In one sketch I chose to make the mattress and blankets of the bed as two hands posed palms up to connote comfort and security. In the second sketch the sheets and blankets become a smiling face. We went with the second sketch for the final.