Born Albert Van Ecke in Brooklyn, New York, Albert Dekker made his professional acting debut with a Cincinnati stock company in 1927. Within a few months, Dekker was featured on Broadway. Dekker moved to Hollywood in 1937, and made his first film, The Great Garrick. He returned to the stage and replaced Lee J. Cobb …
I suppose it’s only fitting that, on the one year anniversary of the josh pincus is crying blog, I once again misunderstood the topic. I misread the illustrationfriday.com challenge for this week. It’s “pet peeves”. Here’s a couple of guys waiting in a veterinarian’s office.
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “illustrate the comic book hero, Wonder Woman, in your style.” This is the second of two illustrations for this challenge. “hmmmm, I guess I’ll wear the Wonder Woman costume…..again.”
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “illustrate the comic book hero, Wonder Woman, in your style.” What if, in 1941, Diana Prince didn’t go to the United States when she left Paradise Island? What if she ended up in a Muslim country?
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “heavy”. “There’s that word again ‘heavy’. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth’s gravitational pull?”
The sugarfrostedgoodness.com challenge word this week is “innocent”. On August 29, 1484, Pope Innocent VIII succeeded Pope Sixtus IV (for whom the Sistine Chapel was named). And it was all downhill from there. After his coronation, he went back all his promises and left his signatures unhonored, slyly revelling in his immunity. He abandoned the …
“She left her home one morning/For her school not far away./And no one dreamed that danger/Was lurking near that day” On December 15, 1927, Marion Parker, the 12-year-old daughter of Perry Parker, a prominent banker in Los Angeles, was abducted from her school. Nineteen-year-old Edward Hickman showed up at the school Marian attended with her …
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Here is a direct quote from Monday Artday introducing the weekly challenge: “THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE Wee Folk – use any medium to illustrate the theme. Wee Folk are leprechauns, faeries, sprites, brownies, etc.” maybe I misunderstood…
This week’s challenge word on illustrationfriday.com is “garden”. In the Garden of Eden (or as Iron Butterfly said “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”) story from Genesis, God molds Adam from the dust of the Earth, then forms Eve from Adam’s “side”, and places them both in the garden, eastward in Eden. “Male and female he created them; and blessed them, …
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “wicked”. “Wicked” Wilson Pickett was born March 18, 1941 in Prattville, Alabama, and grew up singing in Baptist church choirs. He was the youngest of 11 children. He made reference to his mother as “the baddest woman in my book.” He said, “I get scared of her now. She …
