from my sketchbook: anissa jones

By the time she was six, Anissa (pronounced “ah-NEESE-ah”) Jones was hawking cereal in her first television commercial. A couple of years later, in 1966, Anissa’s acting talents caught the attention of two television producers who were preparing a new television sitcom called Family Affair. They felt Anissa would be perfect in the role of …

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IF: fierce

The illustationfriday.com challenge word this week is “fierce”. Henry Rollins is a fierce figure onstage. Born Henry Garfield in Washington, DC in 1961, Henry’s parents divorced when he was very young. He suffered from low self-esteem, a poor attention span, bad grades, a confrontational attitude, bad behavior and an uncomfortable feeling around women. He was regularly …

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IF: hoard

The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “hoard”. hoard (hawrd, hohrd) –noun     a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc. Throughout the nineteenth century, the United States boasted many regional bakeries, such as Chicago’s American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company, the New York Biscuit Company and the United States …

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DCS: herve villechaize

Herve Villechaize was born in 1943 in Paris. A malfunction in his endocrine system would leave Herve at a full-grown height of just under 4 feet tall. Herve eventually studied painting and photography at the famed Beaux-Arts Museum in Paris. At the age of 18 he became the youngest artist to ever have his work …

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Monday Artday: anarchy

The Monday Artday challenge word this week is “anarchy”. Outside the 1968 Democratic Convention, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman announced that their candidate for president would be a pig named Pigasus. Jerry Rubin was a left-wing social activist (read: radical). In 1967, Rubin and some others founded the Youth International Party (The Yippies), an anti-authoritarian …

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