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.
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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The current Illustration Friday challenge word is “sweater”. “Hey Grandma, how’s that sweater coming along?”
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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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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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.
The new illustration challenge on the Monday Artday website is “strange food”. To break up the monotony between shots of sun-tanned tourists on cruise ships and Anthony Bourdain’s smoke-filled excursions to out-of-the-way gourmet eateries, the Travel Channel debuted Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern in 2007. Andrew is a chef, a food critic and, most important, a daring gourmand. He’s a …
Welsh actress Rachel Roberts appeared predominantly in British cinema, earning critical acclaim opposite Albert Finney in the 1960 British New Wave film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Her role in The Sporting Life, with Richard Harris, was recognized with an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Rachel was regularly cast as women of questionable character, …
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “surrender”. “This next one is the first song on our new album. It just came out this week and the song is called ‘Surrender’.” Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, Live at Budokan 1978 This illustration was done on inspiration from my son. He reminded me of …
After a lengthy hiatus, the Monday Artday illustration website returns with its first challenge word since September 2010. And that word is “fitness”. “And we’ll go lifting weights, twelve ounces at a time.” Antifreeze by Wammo, as recorded by The Asylum Street Spankers. Listen to the whole song right here
