IF: save
The challenge on illustrationfriday.com this week is “save”. Pass from the left wing. Skates down ice. It’s a breakaway. Slap shot on goal….. JESUS SAVES!
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SFG: dragon
When I was a kid in the 1960s, every summer usually included one or two trips to Atlantic City. My parents, my older brother and I would pile into the car and take, what seemed to be, the eleven-hour drive from northeast Philadelphia to the southern New Jersey seaside resort (Of course, as an adult, …
DCS: willie stargell
Willie Stargell was unquestionably the guiding force behind the success of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late ’70s. He played his entire career — 21 seasons — with The Pirates. He was the league MVP at age 39. Besides being the team’s best player, he kept the clubhouse loose. He even instituted the equivalent of …
Monday Artday: pirates
The challenge word at Monday Artday this week is “pirates”. John Rackam, also known as Calico Jack because of his preference for wearing brightly-colored patchwork pants, was a moderately successful pirate. Rather than attacking plump rich targets, Rackam preferred using a small sloop to attack local merchants and fishing vessels. He is most famous for …
IF: homage
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “homage”. hom·age (ˈä-mij or ˈhä-mij) n. 1. expression of high regard 2. something that shows respect or attests to the worth or influence of another I thought of several ideas for this topic. This guy suggested paying homage to René Magritte. Magritte is his favorite artist. Magritte was …
SFG: ape
The challenge on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “ape”. In 1841, Edgar Allan Poe published “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. It is considered to be the first detective story, preadating the first Sherlock Holmes story by forty-six years and Agatha Christie‘s birth by fifty-nine years. Poe referred to it as one of his tales of …
DCS: roscoe arbuckle
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle appeared in several Keystone Kops shorts in 1913. In 1914 Paramount Pictures offered the then-unknown Arbuckle $1,000 a day, 25% of all profits and complete artistic control of movies he made for them. The movies were so lucrative and popular that in 1918 they offered Arbuckle a 3-year, $3 million contract. In …
Monday Artday: thirst
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “thirst”. I love old jokes and this week’s challenge word made me think of a great old joke. A guy is crawling through the desert, crying for water. “Water! Water!” he cries. He sees a figure ahead in the desert and he crawls towards it. It’s a man. …
from my sketchbook: albert dekker
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 …
IF: pet peeves
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.