This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “propagate“. In reference to the ever-propagating Duggar family, I’m reminded of a quote (often, but incorrectly) attributed to Groucho Marx “I love my cigar, but at least I take it out once in a while.”
The Monday Artday current challenge is “caricature”. I’ll be honest, I went the easy route and drew two famous people who are pretty easy to caricature (because they are almost caricatures themselves), George Burns and Jack Benny. Despite the on-stage jabs at each other, George Burns and Jack Benny were the best of friends. George …
Remember Saturday afternoon kiddie matinees at the movies? Thank K. Gordon Murray. Murray, an entrepreneur as early as his teen years, set up a makeshift bingo game in one of his funeral director father’s cemetery tents. He took his game on the road with a carnival, eventually becoming the traveling show’s manager. In the late …
This week’s Monday Artday challenge word is “train”. I have been riding the train to work for almost three years. It is a pleasure to let someone else take the responsibility of being in charge of my morning and evening commute. I don’t worry about traffic or weather or other drivers. I also get to …
Barbara La Marr had a whirlwind, but brief, career. She began performing at an early age. She married at seventeen, the first of her five marriages. She became a screenwriter and then an actress appearing in over thirty films in six years. Barbara was given the nickname “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World”. She …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge is “adrift”. Calvin was adrift for days before he realized he was in a giant pot of soup.
The current Monday Artday challenge is “candy”. I was always told not to take candy from strangers. But, for Christ’s sake, he’s got Charleston Chew and you just don’t see them around much.
Gail Russell got an “introducing” credit in the 1944 supernatural thriller “The Uninvited” with Ray Milland, although she had made two earlier films. “The Univited”, one of the first Hollywood movies to present a ghost story in a serious manner (as opposed to comedies), made Gail an overnight star. She starred in a host of …
Elvia Allman had a long and productive career and, most likely, you never heard of her. Elvia made her debut on Bob Hope’s radio show in the late 1930s, portraying the man-crazy character Cobina, a parody of Cobina Wright, a society debutante of the time. Wright sued over the portrayal. The case was settled out …
Earlier this week, I was alerted to a contest at the website Ain’t It Cool News, from my friend steeveedee. The contest is to promote the upcoming release of “The Wolfman”, a remake of the classic Universal horror movie starring Lon Chaney Jr. The challenge is to submit an illustration of The Wolfman in any …
