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 …
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 …
The challenge this week on Monday Artday is “design a cd cover”. For several years now, I have been compiling a list of possible band names. I have had a lot of help (from this guy and this lady, among others). Sometimes, someone will utter a phrase, as part of regular conversation, and a band …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “punchline”. I know so many jokes and choosing the right one to illustrate was difficult. Plus, I have already done illustrations for two of my favorite jokes, The Zoo Joke and the Desert Joke. I decided on this joke for “punchline”. and here’s the actual joke….. WARNING! THIS …
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 …
The challenge word this week on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “star trek”. I was never much of a Star Trek fan. I was five years-old when the original series premiered. I’ve seen it, on and off, in reruns for years. I have seen a few of the movies. I just never “got it”. Whenever I hear “Star Trek” …
If you are 25 years old or younger, you probably don’t know Carol Wayne. Even if you were around during the height of Carol’s popularity, she is most likely forgotten to you now. Carol Wayne was a former professional ice skater and Las Vegas showgirl whose “dumb blonde” persona gave her tremendous, but brief, fame …
On Tuesday, I saw this girl on the train.
In 1982, I was in my second year of art school. When I began my first year at The Hussian School of Art, Jimmy Carter was president and he was very generous with government money for education (if you can call “art school” education). When Ronald “There’s a Commie under my bed” Reagan became president, …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “baby”. Nobody puts Baby in a corner. Thanks to pudge’s mom for inspiration.
