Monday Artday: samurai
The current Monday Artday challenge word is “samurai”. John Belushi a more fearsome samurai there never was.
Archive of entries posted on February 2011
IF: swarm
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “swarm”. Sure, there’s the large salary and great benefits, but being the CEO of a honey processing company has its drawbacks.
from my sketchbook: wilbur brink
On Memorial Day 1931, 24 year-old driver Billy Arnold was the defending champion of the Indianapolis 500. Having competed in the annual event two previous times, Billy won the 1930 race after leading all but first two laps, the most ever by a winner. On lap 162 of the 1931 Indianapolis 500, leader Billy Arnold …
IF: layer
The new challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “layer”. Tyler Durden explains the art of making… um… soap : The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or You can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You …
Monday Artday: redo a famous painting (part 2)
The art and illustration website Monday Artday‘s challenge this week is to redo a famous painting. This is my second illustration for this challenge. (HERE is the first.) Mrs. Pincus made the suggestion for this version and I thought it was a good idea despite my dislike for Norman Rockwell’s work.
Monday Artday: redo a famous painting (part 1)
The new Monday Artday challenge is to redo a famous painting. I did this for another illustration website a little over a year ago. My version of Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière by French Neoclassical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres can be seen here. For the current challenge I chose two paintings that are linked, but for a ridiculous reason. Pinkie …
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IF: sweater
The current Illustration Friday challenge word is “sweater”. “Hey Grandma, how’s that sweater coming along?”
Monday Artday: horse with hands riding a bike
This week’s Monday Artday challenge is an unusual (and specific) suggestion. It’s a “horse with hands riding a bike”. Supposedly, horses are difficult to draw, hands are difficult to draw and bicycles are difficult to draw. So, putting them all together presents a particularly difficult challenge. And artists seem to always be looking for a challenge. Well, …
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from my sketchbook: stanley fafara and sue randall
Poor Beaver Cleaver. He was a pretty nice kid, if only he didn’t give in to the misguided persuasion of idiotic Larry Mondello and two-faced liar Gilbert Bates. The antics got Beaver into a certain amount of trouble, though he usually walked away with nothing worse than a torn pair of pants or some lost lunch money. …
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IF: reverse
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “reverse”. “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” J. D. Salinger In early 2010, the longtime reclusive author passed away at his home in New Hampshire. He was 91.