The sugarfrostedgoodness.com current challenge is “yummy”. For this uncharacteristically cheerful illustration, I took my inspiration from Dr. Seuss. Here’s my original story of “Mister McBaker O’Frosting Moran” Mister McBaker O’Frosting Moran Baked one thousand cakes and used only one pan He concocted pink cupcakes And yellow and blue But he used just one pan Not …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “clique”. no clique would have them, so they made their own.
The challenge this week on Monday Artday is music group. This is the second of two illustrations for this topic. Sparks are the greatest band that you have never heard of. Their career has spanned five decades. They have released twenty-one albums. They have played sold-out shows all over the world. And you’ve never heard …
The challenge this week on Monday Artday is “music group”. I remember it well. It was late one night in 1974. I was in the bedroom I shared with my brother. As usual, his clock radio was tuned to WFIL-AM. Typical for a top 40 AM radio station in 1974, the air was filled with …
The illustrationfriday.com challange word this week is “island”. The song “Zombie Jamboree” began life as “Jumbie Jamberee”, a calypso song written by Winston O’Conner. Winston performed under the name Lord Intruder in the early 1950s. In 1953, Lord Intruder released the song as the B-side to his recording of “Disaster With Police”. The Kingston Trio recorded …
If you are too young to remember when “The Tonight Show“ was hosted by Johnny Carson, then you probably don’t remember Myron Cohen. Myron Cohen was a textile salesman working in New York City’s “Garment District“. Early in his career, he developed client relationships by telling jokes. Pretty soon, his jokes became more popular than …
In doing research for this challenge, I read quite a few of the tales collected by The Brothers Grimm. I really enjoyed some of the more obscure and abstract stories, specifically “The Mouse, The Bird and The Sausage.” Once upon a time a Mouse, a Bird and a Sausage lived together in a single house. …
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Through talks with peasants and visits to small villages, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected some of the most gruesome, frightening and disturbing stories and published them in several volumes for children. Originally published in the early nineteenth century, these stories were watered down and homogenized over years of retelling. But in their original form, these …
Thelma McQueen was born in Tampa, Florida in 1911. She trained as a dancer and took her stage name from the “Butterfly Dance” after performing it in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She never liked the name “Thelma” and legally changed her name to “Butterfly.” Although she appeared in an uncredited role in …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “clutter”. Sylvia Frumkin was the pseudonym given to Maxine Mason, the subject of the 1982 book “Is There No Place On Earth For Me?”by Susan Sheehan. Maxine was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The content of her speech revealed what was going on in her cluttered mind. There’s no such …
