This weeks challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is chicken. This is the second of three illustrations Ive done for this word. Here is the first and here is the third, which I did over a year ago, but fits the theme. The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was …
This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “chicken”. This is the first of three illustrations I’ve done for this word. Here is the second and here is the third, which I did over a year ago, but fits the theme. In 1920, a railroad worker named Arthur Perdue noticed that the farmers bringing …
Brooklyn-born Samuel Mostel came from very humble beginnings, hoping to one day become an artist. After his graduation from City College of New York, when he took the same Beginner Art class over and over, he joined the Public Works of Art Project and began teaching art. He mixed his natural humor into his classes …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “déjà vu”. While the droid played the hidden message for the former Jedi Knight, Luke couldn’t help but feel that he had seen that girl somewhere before.
2010 came to a close last week, but it began almost 35 years ago, when I was in high school. After getting tossed out of the majority of my academic classes, I gravitated towards the art department. There, among those paint-splattered desks and rolls of brown kraft paper, I felt comfortable and had as much …
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Young Peter Boyle joined a monastery, in his hometown of Philadelphia, just after high school. After losing his religious calling, he became a cameraman at a local TV station and later look acting lessons from Tony Award-winning actress Uta Hagen in New York City. He was cast in the title role of the violent and …
The first Illustration Friday challenge word of 2011 is, fittingly, “resolutions”. I usually don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, but this year I thought I would attempt to do one million drawings. That sounded pretty cool. So, I did the math (with a calculator I’m an artist, after all). In order for me to fulfill my …
In 1939, ruggedly handsome, gravelly-voiced William Holden had the starring role in Golden Boy opposite Barbara Stanwyck. He followed that with minor, forgettable parts through the 1940s until his breakout role as Joe Gillis in Billy Wilder’s classic the hauntingly memorable Sunset Boulevard in 1950. William received his first of three Best Actor Oscar …
Here is the fourth in a series of pigs playing the banjo. (Inspired by the Dueling Banjo Pigs website.)
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “winter”. Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.” Here is an earlier blog post that sums up my feelings about winter. Click HERE to download a version of this illustration to use as wallpaper for your computer. (Click the link, then right-click and “Save picture as…”)
