Monday Artday: feast
The current Monday Artday challenge is “feast”. A feast means something different to different people.
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Monday Artday: gratitude
The current Monday Artday challenge is “gratitude”. Curt Flood spent most of his career as a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. He led the National League in putouts four times. He won seven consecutive Gold Glove Awards. He also batted over .300 six times, and led the NL in hits in 1964. He retired …
IF: music
This week’s challenge on Illustration Friday is “music”. “I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” — Elvis Presley
IMT: label
The inspirational word this week on Inspire Me Thursday is “label”. Someday, maybe I’ll go into business with my mother-in-law.
from my sketchbook: hope summers
Hope Summers made her Hollywood debut at the age of fifty, beginning a career of playing essentially the same character. Hope was the older, genteel neighbor in countless Westerns, sitcoms and medical shows in the early days of television. She was featured as Hattie Denton, the friendly and helpful proprietor of the North Fork general store, …
IMT: tree
The inspirational word this week on the Inspire Me Thursday website is “tree”. After years in the jungle, Tarzan never imagined he’d spend his golden years in a tree.
IF: unbalanced
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “unbalanced”. They don’t come much more unbalanced than Armin Meiwes. WARNING! His story is not for the faint of heart. Armin Meiwes was an active member on the fetish fantasy website, The Cannibal Cafe. In December 2001, he posted a message seeking a dinner guest. After screening several …
from my sketchbook: erin fleming
Thirty-year-old Erin Fleming was hired as secretary to eighty-year-old Groucho Marx in 1970. The two began a relationship. She persuaded Groucho to perform a one-man show that proved to be wildly popular. A performance at Carnegie Hall was recorded and released as An Evening with Groucho. That, too, was a huge success. Groucho’s son, Arthur, …
from my sketchbook: tod browning
Charles Browning grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a huge baseball fan and he was pals with his uncle, “Old” Pete Browning, a 3 time batting champ, who stole 103 bases in 1887. Charles’ Uncle Pete’s commissioning of a bat provided the start of the Hillerich & Bradsby bat company, famous for their Louisville …
DCS: willie best
Willie Best arrived in Hollywood by way of Sunflower, Mississippi as chauffeur for a vacationing couple. He began performing with traveling shows in California. He became a regular character actor in Hollywood after a talent scout discovered him on stage. Along with black actors like Lincoln Perry (better known as “Stepin Fetchit”), Willie was usually …