Monday Artday: samurai
The current Monday Artday challenge word is “samurai”. John Belushi a more fearsome samurai there never was.
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Monday Artday: redo a famous painting (part 2)
The art and illustration website Monday Artday‘s challenge this week is to redo a famous painting. This is my second illustration for this challenge. (HERE is the first.) Mrs. Pincus made the suggestion for this version and I thought it was a good idea despite my dislike for Norman Rockwell’s work.
Monday Artday: redo a famous painting (part 1)
The new Monday Artday challenge is to redo a famous painting. I did this for another illustration website a little over a year ago. My version of Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière by French Neoclassical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres can be seen here. For the current challenge I chose two paintings that are linked, but for a ridiculous reason. Pinkie …
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Monday Artday: horse with hands riding a bike
This week’s Monday Artday challenge is an unusual (and specific) suggestion. It’s a “horse with hands riding a bike”. Supposedly, horses are difficult to draw, hands are difficult to draw and bicycles are difficult to draw. So, putting them all together presents a particularly difficult challenge. And artists seem to always be looking for a challenge. Well, …
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Monday Artday: strange food
The new illustration challenge on the Monday Artday website is “strange food”. To break up the monotony between shots of sun-tanned tourists on cruise ships and Anthony Bourdain’s smoke-filled excursions to out-of-the-way gourmet eateries, the Travel Channel debuted Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern in 2007. Andrew is a chef, a food critic and, most important, a daring gourmand. He’s a …
Monday Artday: fitness
After a lengthy hiatus, the Monday Artday illustration website returns with its first challenge word since September 2010. And that word is “fitness”. “And we’ll go lifting weights, twelve ounces at a time.” Antifreeze by Wammo, as recorded by The Asylum Street Spankers. Listen to the whole song right here
Monday Artday: medical
After a long hiatus, Monday Artday, the Monday illustration blog to which I have contributed since 2007, has returned with a new challenge word. The word this week is “medical”. Mildred Ratched, the sadistic tyrant who maintained strict order as head administrative nurse at the Oregon State Mental Hospital, in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One …
Monday Artday: silly
The new Monday Artday challenge word is “silly.” Vampires don’t always act sullen and menacing.
Monday Artday: flying machine
The current Monday Artday challenge is “flying machine”. Wilbur and Orville were two brothers, named Wright The nicest pair of kids you’ve ever seen They worked twelve years on a secret project They thought it was a washing machine I said, “Fellas, what are all those wings for?” They said, “For hanging clothes out to …
Monday Artday: favorite food
I began to observe kashrut (keeping kosher) shortly after I got married in 1984. I figured it was easier than trying to explain to our (potential) children “why Mommy eats this but Daddy eats whatever he wants.” So, without as much sacrifice as I had anticipated, I eliminated shellfish, bacon, pork chops and the mixing …