The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “plain“. It is the practice of the Amish that men typically wear dark-colored trousers and a dark vest or coat, suspenders, broad-rimmed straw hats in the warmer months, and black felt hats in the colder months. Single Amish men are clean-shaven. If they are available to court women, they …
Louis Armstrong was one of the most charismatic and innovative performers of the 20th century. His inspired and improvised soloing was the main influence for a fundamental change in jazz. Most famous as a cornet player, then as a trumpet player, toward the end of his career he was best known as a vocalist and …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “stitch“. In a letter to the Board of Admiralty in 1780, Francis Hopkinson asserted that he had designed the flag of the United States of America. Hopkinson had received nothing for this work, and now he submitted a bill and asked “whether a Quarter Cask of the public wine” …
The sugarfrostedgoodness.com challenge this week is “science fiction” Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still But he told us where we stand And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear Claude Rains was the invisible man Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong They got caught in a celluloid …
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “most embarrassing moment“. When I was a kid, a short time after my mom bumped off my dad by feeding him meatloaf stuffed with thumbtacks, I came home early from school and quietly walked into the kitchen. I caught my mom pouring Drano into the pot of tomato …
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The Illustration Friday challenge this week is “100%“. 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High was based on Cameron Crowe’s undercover exposé of high-school life. Crowe (who went on to write and direct Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, for which he won an Oscar for Best Screenplay) went back to his alma mater, infiltrating the everyday …
The challenge on sugar frosted goodness this week is “superhero“. Don Diego de la Vega, the mild-mannered caballero who at night donned the black cape and hood and made his mark against evildoers as Zorro, first made his appearance in print in the All Story Weekly in Johnston McCulley’s five-part series entitled “The Curse of …
The first challenge for 2008 on Monday Artday is “new year’s resolution“. I don’t make new year’s resolutions for a few reasons. First, I know I will not keep them longer than three minutes. I am too set in my ways. Second, if I’m going to change something about myself, I don’t need a “new …
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 …
