Monday Artday: old me
The Monday Artday current challenge is “old me” . (Do a self-portrait as you imagine you might look like when you are very old). I imagine this is how I will look approximately eighty years after the picture on the wall.
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IMT: cupcake
The word of inspiration on Inspire Me Thursday is “cupcake”. As mentioned many, many times on this blog, I love going to Disney theme parks. I went to Walt Disney World for the first time when I was nineteen. My wife and I went to Walt Disney World on our honeymoon. We took our son …
IF: caution
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “caution”. A Cautionary Song by The Decemberists There’s a place your mother goes when everybody else is soundly sleeping Through the lights of beacon street And if you listen you can hear her weeping, She’s weeping, cause the gentlemen are calling And the snow is softly falling …
IF: wrapped
The illustrationfriday.com current challenge is “wrapped”. I actually did this drawing almost three years ago, waiting for the Illustration Friday word to be “wrapped”. FINALLY!
IF: impatience
This week’s illustrationfriday.com challenge is “impatience”. There was nobody that ever lived that was as impatient as my father. Perhaps it started when he was a child. He and his parents lived at eight different addresses on West 52nd Street in Philadelphia. They kept moving up the block. My father told me it was because each …
DCS: bobby driscoll
Bobby Driscoll was Walt Disney’s Golden Child. He was the typical cute, scrappy All-American boy and Disney Studios milked that image for all they could. Bobby starred in a string of classic live-action pictures for Disney, including Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart and Treasure Island. He was also provided the voice for …
Monday Artday: ghost
What started out as a black and white sketch of a crooked street leading to a peaceful graveyard, with a run-down manor perched high on a hill that loomed over Main Street evolved into one of the greatest and most beloved attractions in Disneyland — The Haunted Mansion. A short time after the opening of …
from my sketchbook: ub iwerks
In 1919, eighteen year-old Ub Iwerks was working for the Pesman Art Studio in Kansas City, Missouri. It was here he met another eighteen year-old, a fellow artist named Walt Disney, who would become his oldest and best friend. Disney and Iwerks moved on to work as illustrators for The Kansas City Film Ad Company. …
DCS: carl mays
Ray Chapman was born in Beaver Dam, Kentucky in 1891. Ten months later and 150 miles away the man who would kill him was born. Ray was an above-average shortstop playing with the Cleveland Indians in the early twentieth century. He led the league in several hitting and fielding categories. He batted .300 in three seasons …
IMT: holes
The ispirational word this week on the InspireMeThursday website is “holes”. “There’s nothing wrong with you that a gaping hole drilled into your skull under unsanitary conditions couldn’t cure.” Trepanation. An innocent enough sounding term. Trepanation is an antiquated and misguided medical procedure in which a hole is drilled into the human skull, thus exposing the meningeal layers surrounding …