The challenge this week on Monday Artday is music group. This is the second of two illustrations for this topic. Sparks are the greatest band that you have never heard of. Their career has spanned five decades. They have released twenty-one albums. They have played sold-out shows all over the world. And you’ve never heard …
The challenge this week on Monday Artday is “music group”. I remember it well. It was late one night in 1974. I was in the bedroom I shared with my brother. As usual, his clock radio was tuned to WFIL-AM. Typical for a top 40 AM radio station in 1974, the air was filled with …
In doing research for this challenge, I read quite a few of the tales collected by The Brothers Grimm. I really enjoyed some of the more obscure and abstract stories, specifically “The Mouse, The Bird and The Sausage.” Once upon a time a Mouse, a Bird and a Sausage lived together in a single house. …
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Through talks with peasants and visits to small villages, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected some of the most gruesome, frightening and disturbing stories and published them in several volumes for children. Originally published in the early nineteenth century, these stories were watered down and homogenized over years of retelling. But in their original form, these …
The challenge word this week on Monday Artday is “paris”. On July 3, 1971, The Doors’ Jim Morrison died of a heroin overdose in the bathtub of his Paris apartment, essentially ending Robby Krieger’s career. I see that a band calling itself “Riders on the Storm” is on tour, with a stop near me in …
The challenge at Monday Artday this week is “illustrate a Beatrix Potter story”. Beatrix Potter was born in London in 1866. She was educated at home by a succession of governesses, and had little opportunity to mix with other children. Even her younger brother was rarely at home. He was sent to boarding school, leaving …
The challenge word this week on both Monday Artday and sugar frosted goodness is “olympics”. There are things I don’t like. I don’t like being manipulated and told what to like. The media in the United States has been manipulating and telling us what to like for years. The influence of the US media combined …
The challenge on Monday Artday this week is “1 character, 4 panels”. This challenge was posted on August 4 as a two-week challenge because the person who mantains the Monday Artday illustration blog was going on vacation. So was I. So, I’m walking across Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, California, with Pudge’s Mom and Captain Wow. …
The Monday Artday challenge word this week is “summer”. I love summer. I was born in the summer. I wait all winter for summer to come. I dislike the snow and the cold weather. Summer has always meant warm weather and vacations. Elsewhere on my blog, I have talked about going to pre-casino Atlantic City when …
Bewitched‘s Samantha Stephens was a typical late-1960’s housewife. She was demure and straight-laced. She had a loving husband, Darrin, a hothead who was incompetent in his job. She had an adorable daughter who followed in her mom’s footsteps and an infant son. Her mother, Endora, who was estranged from her father, disliked Darrin. Oh, and …
