The challenge this week at Monday Artday is “underground”. Vance Palmer was born September 16, 1893. In the early twentieth century, hundreds of boys like Vance worked as “door boys” or “nippers” in coal mines. Door boys were never over fourteen years of age and sometimes as young as ten. The work of the door …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “multiple”. One of the most famous and interesting medical anomalies is the world’s only conjoined triplets, Chang and Eng and Archie Bunker. Conjoined twins are a rare phenomenon. It is estimated to occur from 1 in 50,000 births to 1 in 200,000 births. However, there is only one case …
The sugarfrostedgoodness.com weekly challenge is “bad idea”. Not a good idea!
The challenge this week on Monday Artday is “getting ready”. …for Opening Day! I have mentioned before. I love baseball. I love watching baseball. I love going to baseball games. There are some things I don’t like about baseball (namely Brett Myers), but overall, I love it. I have been a Phillies season ticket holder …
The challenge this week on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “fire“. Edward Slovik was arrested and served jail time for several incidents of petty theft, breaking and entering and disturbing the peace, between 1937 and 1939. Slovik was classified as unfit for duty in the U.S. military because of his criminal record. He met Antoinette Wisniewski while working …
The illustrationfriday.com word this week is another abstract one. The word is “theory”. “Anne Elk’s Theory on Brontosauruses” is a sketch from an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. This skit features Graham Chapman as a television interviewer and John Cleese in preposterous drag as the palaeontologist, Anne Elk. The plot of the skit is …
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “joy”. This is the second of two illustrations for the topic. With his calm, patient nature, Bob Ross came to prominence as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a long-running instructional program braodcast on public television. The show continues in reruns, even after Ross’s …
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “joy”. This is the first of two illustrations for the topic. Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Greater Manchester. The band consisted of Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences, …
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “favorite book”. I actually did an illustration for my favorite book a while ago. My favorite book is “The Emperors of Chocolate” by Joel Glenn Brenner. The illustration I did was for the word “chocolate”. For this challenge, I chose a book that is easily the most affecting …
The Illustration Friday challenge for this week is “choose“. What’s it gonna be boy? Come on. I can wait all night What’s it gonna be boy – yes or no? What’s it gonna be boy – yes or no?
