IMT: ghost

The inspirational word this week on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration blog is “ghost”. Resurrection Mary is the Chicago area’s best-known ghost story. The story takes place outside Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Since the 1930s, several men driving northeast along Archer Avenue between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection …

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from my sketchbook: joe palma

On November 22, 1955, while returning home by taxi from attending a boxing match, Samuel “Shemp” Howard, of the Three Stooges, died of a massive heart attack. Shemp was lighting a cigar after telling a joke when he suddenly slumped over. The Stooges still had four more shorts to film in order to fulfill their …

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Monday Artday: the old west

The current challenge on Monday Artday is “the old west”.  In addition to my finished illustration, I included my original pencil sketch. (I showed a pencil sketch once before on this post.) Coincidentally, almost two years ago, I did this drawing when another illustration blog posed the same challenge. When I did an illustration for “the …

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IF: subtract

The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “subtract”. I read the following article in National Geographic Magazine in February 2009: Monkeys Can Subtract, Study Finds February 18, 2009 Add this to the growing list of reasons humans aren’t so special, after all: Monkeys can subtract. The discovery marks the first time a nonhuman species has been …

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