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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Old Man Left Working: session 4

Weekend four... not much work done on this one. But now I feel obligated to post whenever I get any work done on this just to show I wasn't just parking the entire weekend on the sofa watching ncaa basketball.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Old Man Left_working _ weekend 3 work in progress

Weekend three just ended and so I am posting my results on this project. It is progressing, slowly but surely.

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Old Man Left- Week 2 work in progress

Week 2 progress... not much during the week, maybe a couple of hours total, but hit it hard Saturday afternoon and Sunday. My goodness this is a slow and tedious process, but I feel good at the progress and results.

Thursday, March 05, 2015

Old Man Left - new piece, work in progress day one

Started a new piece to keep me occupied while my knee heals. And I haven't done anything of any real size for some time, so I am working a digital pen and ink drawing. This is all in photoshop but it is drawn one stroke at a time. The size will be about 21" x 21" when completed. This is session one from last weekend. Fun stuff.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

how long

I watch the water slowly creep up around me, I move to what I believe to be a safer place on the boat. I try to convince myself that situations can be changed for the better, that perseverance can overcome many seemingly insurmountable obstacles. I pass the Captain. The Captain doesn’t say the boat is sinking, that all we have done is for not, to go and try to save ourselves. The Captain designates who gets thrown overboard to temporarily lighten the ship.

I have seen many thrown overboard. Some went willingly, some went with sad faces and some fear as to what was to become of them. I wonder how long can they last in that cold water?

To quote Robert Louis Stevenson’s Long John Silver; “Them that dies will be the lucky ones.” I fought against that manner of thinking. Do what you can to survive, to make it work. Now perhaps, looking around at the sinking, crumbling vessel that was once a mighty ship…. I wonder how long before the Captain points and signals that I am to be sent overboard.

Monday, February 09, 2015

3X3 Illustration Annual 11 is out

3X3 Illustration 11 is out!!! I am so happy to see two of my pieces in the professional show for Self Promotion. They have an online gallery for the book as well.

http://3x3mag.com/annual/A-C

I am so very proud and honored.

Sunday, January 04, 2015

Doodle United: Adjective Snowman

For the first Doodle United of the new year, we got the assignment of Adjective Snowman, in honor of the great Bill Watterson, Creator of Calvin and Hobbs... specifically "Snow Goon strips" We were given a link that is a random Adjective Generator.
link > http://www.randomlists.com/random-adjectives.
We were to Set the Limit to '1,' and hit refresh. The adjective that was generated we were to place in front of the word Snowman, and BOOM. Draw it. IT was fun.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Christmas Card Design for 2014: Niblet

I didn't know if I was going to even come up with a concept for this year. I am happy with this year's concept and with the illustration.

Niblet, The Christmas goat.

Saturday, November 01, 2014

Doodle United for Monday November 3rd, Gargoyle

For the last of the Halloween type stuff for the year, the topic was Gargoyles for Doodle United.... I decided to solve this with a gargling gargoyle, or is it gargle-goyle?