The challenge word on Monday Artday this week is “artist“. That certainly is a challenge…… “Art is a lie that helps us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso “Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” – Claude Debussy “An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that …
This week’s word at illustrationfriday.com is “camouflage“. I love Stan Ridgway! He is one of the most talented and underrated singer-songwriters in modern music. One-time leader of L.A. new-wave band Wall of Voodoo, Stan’s solo career has spanned twenty years and still continues. In 1986, he released his first solo album, The Big Heat. This …
Jeff, the guy who maintains the sugar frosted goodness blog asked contributors to draw him. Here is my drawing… Here’s Jeff so you can compare.
The weekly challenge word on Monday Artday is “glass” um……… oops.
This week’s word on illustrationfriday.com is “rejection” As inspired by Charles Laughton (from Spartacus), the ancient Roman emperor shows his disapproval. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.
In 1999, a group of friends from the southern California goth community gathered at Disneyland on the third Sunday in August, for an unofficial Disney event called “Bats Day in the Fun Park“. The next year, more people got wind of the gathering. Year after year, the attendees grew, until 2006, when Bats Day 8 …
This week’s challenge at Monday Artday is “mystical“. Max Schreck, as movie legend tells it, was mystical. He was a German actor. He supposedly kept to himself and not much was known about his life outside of acting. His most famous role was Count Orlock in the 1922 silent film “Nosferatu“, notoriously based on (although unauthorized) the …
The weekly challenge at illustrationfriday.com is “suit” I have been working as a professional artist, in one capacity or another, for almost 25 years. In that time, at every job I have ever had, there are guys in suits. They are very far removed from the end result of what the business produces. Yet, as …
I pass this guy, in the train station tunnel between 15th and 16th Streets, on my way to work. He is there most mornings, in his tux, playing an unusual assortment of songs on his flute. The one he plays most often… “Hava Nagila“. He has no trouble getting coffee. I also pass four Dunkin …
The weekly challenge word over at Monday Artday is “warrior“. Here’s how I arrived at this: I searched warrior at wikipedia, and I came up with a general description of war and battles and the people who love them. Then I came to a section about women warriors, specifically a character named Vishpala. Vishpala was …
