The challenge word this week on Illustration Friday is “soar“. Hank Soar played nine seasons for the New York Giants and caught the game-winning touchdown pass in the 1938 NFL Championship Game against the Green Bay Packers at the Polo Grounds. He coached the Providence Steamrollers in the Basketball Association of America (the forerunner to …
The challenge on Monday Artday this week is an unusual one. It’s “children’s book“, with the actual challenge being “illustrate a page out of a childrens book you plan to make! If you do not plan to, just make an imaginary one!” I chose “Zombie Jack and Jill”, a story I may write in the …
The challenge this week on illustrationfriday.com is “horizon“. This reminds me of a joke. (Everything reminds me of a joke.) A publishing company circulates a correction to a recently published book on skydiving. The correction says: On page 47 of our publication “How To Skydive“, in the third paragraph, the line that reads “State zip …
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com for this week is “santa“, of course. First of all, as you may have figured by now, I do not celebrate Christmas. When I was a kid, we didn’t decorate for Christmas either. No lights. No tree. We weren’t Christian. And we didn’t feel bad or slighted in the least. …
Most everyone knows the basic story of what Christmas commemorates, even if the details are a bit fuzzy. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus. After that, the facts are skewed. Nowhere in the Christian Bible is it stated when Jesus was born. December 25th was chosen as Jesus’ birthday 440 years after he died. The …
The challenge word on Monday Artday this week is “grandpa“. Louis Marshall Jones was born on October 20, 1913 in Niagara, Kentucky. He spent his teenage years in Akron, Ohio where he began singing country music tunes on a local radio show. By 1935 his pursuit of a musical career took him to WBZ radio …
The challenge this week on illustrationfriday.com is “backwards“. Bizarro is an enemy, of sorts, of Superman. He made his comic book debut in 1958 in Superboy #68. The original Bizarro was created when Superman was exposed to a “duplicate ray.” Bizarro lived in “the Bizarro World,” a cubical planet called Htrae (Earth spelled backwards) which …
This week’s challenge word on Monday Artday is “Christmas“. The actual challenge is to illustrate what Christmas means to me. Christmas. O Christmas. When I think of Christmas, I think of three things: A day off from work. Chinese food. Going to the movies. Not everyone celebrates the same way.
This week’s challenge on illustrationfriday.com is “little things“. Things don’t get much littler than this.
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “winter wonderland“. I hate snow. No wait, let me reconsider. I REALLY hate snow. As far as I can see, snow serves no purpose. It isn’t good for crops. It kills crops. It is dangerous for driving. Earlier this year, a snowstorm closed a large section of …
