IF: artificial
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “artificial”. Walt and Valerie hated to double date with Bob and Dolly.
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “artificial”. Walt and Valerie hated to double date with Bob and Dolly.
Karen Greenlee worked as an embalming assistant at a Sacramento mortuary. She aspired to work in this field because of her life-long fascination with dead bodies. As a child, she visited and later broke into local funeral homes to observe and “interact” with the corpses. Her obsession turned into infatuation and then into …
I’ve done many drawings of Jesus. As a character and what he stands for, I love putting him in oddball situations. Some of my Jesus drawings have appeared on my blog (like Jesus as a children’s party entertainer, Jesus as a hockey goalie and Jesus as a skateboarder) and some have just remained in my sketchbook. …
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Roy Sullivan, a U.S. park ranger at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, was hit by lightning on seven different occasions between 1942 and 1977. He survived all of them. Roy was included in the Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more times than any other human being. In 1983, Roy died from …
This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “double”. Identical twins Jeen and Sunny Han were born in South Korea in 1974 but lived apart until they were 3. When the girls were 12, their mother, a chronic gambler, moved them to California. She would leave the young sisters alone for days at …
At 6′ 11″, Mel Turpin dominated the court as starter for the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball team in the 1984 NCAA Final Four. He was the Southeastern Conference scoring leader and still holds the record for most field goals in SEC tournament play. At center, he was an aggressive player, scoring 42 points in …
This is my third illustration for the Illustration Friday word “breakfast”. Here is the first one and here is the second. I get a kick out of seeing new parents cautiously checking the ingredient list on cereal. Not wanting to have their children ingest anything that would be harmful or contain empty calories, today’s parents …
This is my second illustration of three illustrations for the Illustration Friday word “breakfast”. Here is the first one and here is the third. A month or so ago, WXPN‘s afternoon drive time DJ Dan Reed was coming out of a block of music and easing into a conversation with Lauren Valle who was about to give a …
The new Monday Artday challenge word is “silly.” Vampires don’t always act sullen and menacing.
“The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.” — Henny Youngman I grew up watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I loved seeing the big name comedians like Rodney Dangerfield, Don Rickles, Shecky Greene (although I didn’t get a lot of his material) and the “King …