IF: déjà vu
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.
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from my sketchbook: will the circle be unbroken
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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from my sketchbook: peter boyle
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 …
IF: resolution
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 …
from my sketchbook: william holden
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 …
from my sketchbook: banjo pig 4
Here is the fourth in a series of pigs playing the banjo. (Inspired by the Dueling Banjo Pigs website.)
IF: winter
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…”)
from my sketchbook: orson welles
Orson Welles lived a life filled with accomplishment. At the age of 20, he presented a version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, reworked in a Haitian setting with the three witches as voodoo priestesses. The production was highly praised for its originality. In 1938, he gained international fame when he frightened the entire country with his radio …
from my sketchbook: donna reed
Donna Reed’s career ran the full spectrum from her humble beginnings opposite Mickey Rooney in The Courtship of Andy Hardy to her popularity as a pin-up girl during World War II to her Academy Award-winning performance as prostitute Lorene Burke in 1953’s From Here to Eternity. Network executives must have been focusing on her role as …
DCS: stanley adams
Stanley Adams was a television staple for three decades, appearing in numerous roles in countless series. He was cast in parts as diverse as policemen and bartenders to con men and aliens. Among his more than a hundred guest spots, he played Otis the drunk’s equally-soused brother in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, a time …