Collect ’em all! Trade with your friends! Stick ’em in the spokes of your bicycle! They’re loads of fun! Kids love ’em!
IF: captain
The current word on illustrationfriday.com is “captain”
There were many captains to choose from…..Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Walker, Billy Joel’s Captain Jack, Captain Morgan, Captain Kidd, Captain and Tennille, Captains Pierce and McIntyre, Captains Courageous, Captain Janks, Captain Amazing, Captain America, Captain Kirk, Captain Marvel…
But I picked my favorite.
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Monday Artday: chemistry
The challenge word this week on Monday Artday is “chemistry”
The classic mad scientist. The classic chemistry set.
What kid didn’t want to mix up that secret potion with his crappy chemistry set from Sears?
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Portrait Swap
These drawings were done for a project at “The Portrait Party” blog.
Two artists draw each other from swapped photos (or in-person, if they are in close enough proximity to each other). So I drew Jeannette and she drew me. I have never met Jeannette (she lives in Boston), but I do admire her drawing ability and wit. I also like her outlook on the world.
Take a look at her work HERE.
Here’s Jeannette’s drawing of me.
For some reason, she thinks I’m a bully….
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IF: emergency
The adventures of Station 51 and Rampart Emergency Hospital were chronicled between 1972 and 1977 on the NBC-TV show “Emergency!” The show was a Jack Webb (of “Dragnet” fame) production. It starred Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as firefighters Gage and DeSoto. It also starred Julie London, a popular singer in the 1950s and the former Mrs. Jack Webb, and Bobby Troup, a former bandleader who wrote the song “Route 66” and the current (at the time of filming) Mr. Julie London. Troup passed away in 1999. Rounding out the cast was Robert Fuller, a popular TV character actor in the 50s through the 70s, who had some wicked-ass sideburns! The show featured some of the worst (or best) overacting.
“Emergency!” (or as it was known in syndication “Emergency 1”) was one of my wife’s favorite shows as a kid, along with “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “Here Come The Brides“. Here are some of the memories of “Emergency!” she has collected.
I, personally, have only seen one or two episodes.
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SFG: the flash
The word this week at sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “flash” (as in the DC Comics superhero)
What more can be said? Speed kills……
Thanks to this guy for the concept.
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Monday Artday: no pants
The challenge word(s) this week on Monday Artday is “no pants”
Poor people only wear barrels in comic strips and political cartoons. If I was poor, I’d wear a barrel. Hell, I might wear a barrel to work tomorrow!
This illustration won the weekly challenge at Monday Artday (week ending August 12, 2007)
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IF: missing
SFG: old west
This week’s word(s) at sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “old west“. The heyday of the American “Old West” was roughly the time between the years 1865 to 1890. These times bring to mind romantic stories of cowboys and gunfights, of John Wayne and Roy Rogers, of saloon dancers and wagon trains. But this is a Hollywood version of the “Old West”. There is another “Old West” that this country would rather forget.
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869. It was the beginning of a nation-wide linking of railways. It was a major factor in the building and strengthening of the United States. Because it was such a massive undertaking, laborers were scarce. Thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the US during the Gold Rush in 1849 and had a reputation as hard workers, were recruited by the railroad companies to build the railroads. The Chinese were hired to keep labor costs down, as they were paid about one-third of white laborers’ salary. Plus, they had to provide their own food and pay for their own living expenses, benefits that were covered for the white workers by the railroad companies.
Thirteen thousand Chinese workers dug tunnels and laid track for half of the Transcontinental Railroad. In photos and illustrations depicting the “Golden Spike” ceremony at Promontory Point, Utah, the site of the joining of the East and West railroad, the Chinese are conspicuously absent.
As a reward and thanks for Chinese efforts, the United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. This act outlawed all Chinese immigration to the United States and denied citizenship to those already settled in the country. Official discrimination extended to the highest levels of the U.S. government: in 1888, U.S. President Grover Cleveland, who supported the Chinese Exclusion Act, proclaimed the Chinese “an element ignorant of our constitution and laws, impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare.”
Sing it, Lee Greenwood.
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Monday Artday: envision
This week’s word at Monday Artday was a difficult one…. “envision“. I really thought about this one for a long time. Envision is a pretty abstract word. It brings forth thoughts of visionaries like Thomas Edison or Walt Disney. It envokes thinkers like DaVinci and Plato. Great men. Men with ideas and concepts far beyond their times.
Then I thought, “What do lazy people envision?”
A “tip of the hat” for style inspiration to R. Crumb and jimmyjanesays.
Two illustrators whose penwork I admire.