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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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?”
