COBOL ARTS

Illustration Friday - Forward

2012-01-31T07:16:00.000-08:00

Bill suddenly realized that he had forwarded THAT e-mail to the president of the company

Illustration Friday - Twirl

2012-01-24T06:59:00.000-08:00

A man who really knew how to twirl a moustache, the wild and wonderful Salvador Dali

Illustration Friday - Grounded

2012-01-08T14:32:00.000-08:00

Most of the music I love is grounded in the blues. John Lee Hooker was one of the greats of the form, I had the good fortune to see him perform solo in a small coffehouse called the Riverboat in Toronto in the early seventies, it was amazing what he could do with just a guitar and his incredible voice

Illustration Friday - Highlight

2012-01-02T07:33:00.000-08:00

One of the highlights of 2011 for me was joining the Julia Kay's Portrait Party group on Flickr found here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/
A wonderfully inspiring and supportive group of artists from around the world, it's been a lot of fun. I can't believe I've already done 75, these are some I'm pretty happy with

You can see the individual ones in my Flickr photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobol/6608050559/in/photostream

Illustration Friday - Separated

2011-12-12T09:31:00.000-08:00

The theme made me think of the 6 Degrees of Separation theory. According to Wikipedia - "Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare.

The game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" was invented as a play on the concept: the goal is to link any actor to Kevin Bacon through no more than six connections, where two actors are connected if they have appeared in a movie or commercial together."

So here's an attempt at a portrait of Bacon, I find it really cool that he used the game to set up a website to raise funds for charity

Also apparently according to a Facebook analysis we're down to an average of 4.74 degrees thanks to the Internet

Illustration Friday - Brigade

2011-12-05T14:21:00.000-08:00

The first thing I thought of when reading the topic was "The Charge Of The Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson about a disastrous battle in the Crimean war

Illustration Friday - Mysterious

2011-09-05T16:28:00.000-07:00

This was done for Julia Kay's Portrait Party on FLICKR. If you like drawing portraits you may want to check it out : http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/

Illustration Friday - Disguise

2011-08-29T06:47:00.000-07:00

It was rumoured that Andy Warhol hired an actor to pretend to be him and represent him at social functions. I'm not satisfied with the likeness of this attempt at a portrait of Andy so let's say it's a portrait of an actor disguised as Andy Warhol

Illustration Friday - Influence

2011-08-24T07:02:00.000-07:00

The great Louis Armstrong. The following is from his Wikipedia entry:
"Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general."
This is a detail from a work in progress, I'll put up the finished picture if I don't completely ruin it somewhere along the way
Here's a link to his amazing version of St James Infirmary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXMx8OW32Bs

and here's the final version:

Illustration Friday - Swell

2011-08-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

I immediately thought of a song by Iggy Pop and Deborah Harry from a 1990 AIDS benefit album called Red Hot and Blue, all of the songs were written by Cole Porter. Turns out the song is actually called Did You Evah from High Society but I always thought it was What A Swell Party This Is. Cole Poerter definitely was "swellegant"

The lyrics (radically altered by Iggy and Blondie)

Have you heard, amoung this clan
I am called 'The forgotten man'?
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!

Have you heard the story of
A boy, a girl , urequitted love?
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!

What frills, what frocks!
What furs, what rocks!
What gaiety!
It's all to exquis!
That French champagne!
So good for the brain!
That bands, it's the end!
Kindly don't fall down my friend.

Have you heard? Professor Munch
Ate his wife and divorced his lunch.
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!

Have you heard? The countess Krupp
Crossed the bridge when the bridge was up.
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!

Have you heard that Mimsie Starr
Just got pinched in the Astor bar?
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!

Have you heard that Uncle Newt
Forgot to open his parachute?
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!

It's great, it's grand!
It's wonderland!
What soup, what fish!
That beef, what a dish!
That grouse, so rare!
That aged camembert!
That bab au rhum!
Will you please move over chum?

Have you heard that dear old Blanch
Got run down by an avalanche?
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!

Have you heard? It's in the stars,
Next July we collide with Mars!
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!
What a swellagent, elagent party this is!

Illustration Friday - Imperfect (and Obsession)

2011-08-06T07:54:00.000-07:00

I had wanted to finish this painting for the Obsession topic since golf is certainly an obsession of mine, however, as someone said "Golf is not a game of perfect" and my game is as imperfect as it gets. This is a view of the fourth hole at Victoria Park East Golf course in Guelph, Ontario where I've been a member since 2008. I have left a large number of balls in this pond over the years

Illustration Friday - Perennial

2011-07-27T17:59:00.000-07:00

I love the day lilies in my garden

Illustration Friday - Stay

2011-07-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

It's been almost 3 years since I did my other portrait of Barack Obama. No one could have lived up to the euphoric hopes at the end of that election campaign but considering that he was faced immediately with an economic crisis I think he has done quite well. He's shown an ability to compromise and get things done even if he couldn't implement all of his platform The question is will America "stay the course" and give him a chance to continue and achieve his goals. Quite frankly up till now the potential Republican candidates make me cringe

Illustration Friday - Remedy

2011-07-06T13:52:00.000-07:00

Sometimes the only remedy for the blues is a good long cry
apologies to Roy Lichtenstein

Illustration Friday - Midsummer Night

2011-06-27T12:11:00.000-07:00

A very young Mickey Rooney as Puck in the 1935 movie of A Midsummer Night's Dream

Illustration Friday - Launch

2011-06-22T15:06:00.000-07:00

A few years ago I attended a book launch and reading for Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates. One of America's great living writers

Illustration Friday - Swept

2011-06-14T09:58:00.000-07:00

As a Canadian it's impossible to not be swept up in the excitement of the Stanley Cup finals. Here's hoping Vancouver wins Game 7. Thursday update - well, sadly they didn't. Congratulations to the Boston Bruins

Illustration Friday - Shadows

2011-06-07T07:38:00.001-07:00

A quick sketch from the video of Tom Waits performing Bronx Lullabye in the movie "Poetry In Motion"

Illustration Friday - Asleep

2011-05-30T12:27:00.001-07:00

Detail from a recent life drawing session

Illustration Friday - Soaked

2011-05-23T17:31:00.000-07:00

When Tom Waits moved to Island Records and released Swordfishtrombones he explored a whole new range of sonic territory including the Howlin Wolf influenced blues shouter Gin Soaked Boy. Swordfishtrombones was one of the greatest albums of the 80's in my opinion

Tom Waits - Gin Soaked Boy Lyrics

I got a belly full of you
and that Leavenworth stuff
now I'm gonna get out
And I'm gonna get tough
you been lying to me
How could you crawl so low
with some gin-soaked boy
that you don't know

I come home last night
full a fifth of Old Crow
you said you goin' to your ma's
but where the hell did you go
you went and slipped out nights
you didn't think that I'd know
with some
gin-soaked boy that you don't know

Well I would bet you as far
as Oklahoma by now
the dogs are barking out back
and you're knittin' your brow
well I'm on your tail I sussed your M.O.
from some gin-soaked boy
boy that you don't know

Illustration Friday - Safari

2011-05-18T07:25:00.000-07:00

There's been a large controversy about animals in zoos recently in Toronto, specifically elephants. Much as I can understand the concerns, since I will likely never be able to go on an African safari I do appreciate the opportunity to see these animals at close range

Illustration Friday Beginner

2011-05-10T16:47:00.000-07:00

Every surgeon was once a beginner. A friend whose son had finished his studies and was now a practising surgeon said it must be very hard to make that first incision into a living person

Illustration Friday - Lesson

2011-05-03T12:10:00.000-07:00

Apart from arts and crafts at school my first drawing lessons were provided by Jon Gnagy's Learn To Draw TV shows which ran in the 50's and 60's. I would sit or lay on the floor with paper and an HB pencil and follow along as he demonstrated various techniques. It was years before I learned that there were varying grades of pencil to draw with. In rertrospect I learned a great deal about form, shading and generally developed a love of drawing from his program. So here's his portrait - done in HB pencil of course.

Illustration Friday - Bicycle

2011-04-25T13:30:00.000-07:00

judging by the wheels someone must have driven this bike into a ditch and banged into a tree. I found it very hard to draw a bicycle, I also find it very hard to ride a bicycle, probably because I never learned until I was in my thirties

Illustration Friday - Journey

2011-04-16T11:23:00.000-07:00

We had a wonderful vacation in Newfoundland last summer. Being an island it's a little difficult to get to but it's well worth the journey

I painted this using tube watercolours but I added white gouache to most so it's more of a gouache

Illustration Friday - Bottled

2011-04-12T11:46:00.001-07:00

It's always risky to release a genie, better to keep them bottled

Illustration Friday - Duet

2011-04-01T16:56:00.000-07:00

Dino and Frank. Sinatra had been a star since the 40's and Dean Martin since the 50's, then in the 60's they appeared together as the best known members of the Rat Pack along with Sammy Davis Jr and Joey Bishop, the ultimate Las Vegas lounge act, back when smoking and boozing and chasing "broads" who were not your wife was cool and stylish

Illustration Friday - Toy

2011-03-28T10:44:00.000-07:00

Cabbage Patch Kids were a hugely successful line of toys when my daughter was 5 years old, parents desperately tried to find them for Christmas that year. I thought they were kind of ugly myself.

Illustration Friday - Cultivate

2011-03-19T16:47:00.000-07:00

We recently spent a month in beautiful Costa Rica where, due to their climate, they can cultivate a wide variety of fruits and vegetables

Illustration Friday - Stir

2011-03-14T16:43:00.000-07:00

Stir It Up - one of my Favourite Bob Marley songs. It's been nearly 30 years since he died but his music lives on and does not sound dated in the least. I'm also a big fan of 2 of his sons, Damian and Stephen. Check out Damian's Road To Zion or Stephen's Inna Di Red next time you want to go to an Irie place

Illustration Friday - Warning

2011-03-10T14:27:00.000-08:00

Lighthouses have been used for a long time to warn sailors of dangers, this one is on Quirpon Island in Newfoundland

Illustration Friday - Swarm

2011-02-28T13:37:00.000-08:00

A couple of times in my life I inadvertently disturbed a hornet's nest, the results weren't as dramatic as this but they were unpleasant

Illustration Friday - Layer

2011-02-21T15:14:00.001-08:00

Couldn't have eggs for breakfast without layers like this

Illustration Friday - Sweater

2011-02-13T12:41:00.000-08:00

The Sweater Girl was a popular pinup style from the 40's through the 50's inspired by movie stars like Jane Russell and Lana Turner - and why has the conical bra look never nade a comeback?

Illustration Friday - Reverse

2011-02-05T15:38:00.000-08:00

A reverse dive in the pike position

Illustration Friday - Surrender

2011-02-02T11:26:00.000-08:00

When I saw the subject I immediately thought of Winston Churchill's famous speech: "We shall never surrender."

Illustration Friday - Prehistoric

2010-12-07T11:04:00.000-08:00

I've used this little guy before for Illustration Friday - but he's certainly not far removed from his prehistoric ancestors

Illustration Friday - Savour

2010-12-02T12:12:00.000-08:00

mmmmm - tequila!

Illustration Friday - Sneaky

2010-11-25T07:55:00.000-08:00

One of the best shows on TV in my opinion is House and the main character played by Hugh Laurie certainly can be sneaky. Having first seen Laurie playing British buffoons in Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster I continue to be amazed at how he well he plays this character and his mastery of the American accent

Illustration Friday - Spooky

2010-10-21T12:13:00.000-07:00

A detail from an old watercolour, I think it fits the topic

Illustration Friday - Transportation

2010-10-08T08:19:00.000-07:00

They don't make em like this anymore

Illustration Friday - Proverb

2010-09-14T14:24:00.000-07:00

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush

Illustration Friday - Dessert

2010-09-06T08:43:00.000-07:00

You could make a tasty and healthy fruit salad for dessert from these ingredients

Illustration Friday - Giant

2010-07-02T18:22:00.000-07:00

The giant land animal - the African elephant

Illustration Friday - Trail

2010-06-06T08:17:00.000-07:00

I have been so busy working at a computer programming contract job that I've done no painting for months. However this older watercolour of the Watchman Trail in Zion National Park fits this subject very well

Illustration Friday - Linked

2010-04-13T12:49:00.000-07:00

a quick sketch which I think fits the topic

Illustration Friday - Dip

2010-04-06T07:25:00.000-07:00

a moonlight dip in the ocean, somehow here it doesn't look very pleasant

Illustration Friday - Expired

2010-03-22T11:47:00.000-07:00

I did this "self portrait" a while ago based on the photograph in a passport that expired in 1980

Illustration Friday - Subterranean

2010-03-16T11:47:00.000-07:00

"The subterraneans is a name invented by a poet and friend of mine who said 'They are hip without being slick, they are intelligent without being corny, they are intellectual as hell and know all about Pound without being pretentious or talking too much about it, they are very quiet, they are very Christlike'" from The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac

Illustration Friday - Perspective

2010-03-03T08:47:00.000-08:00

I'm pretty sure there's a vanishing point in here somewhere

Illustration Friday - Propagate

2010-02-23T06:34:00.001-08:00

for this topic I immediately thought of Jay-Z's rap on P.Diddy's song Young G's, thinking back to his school days he says: "I hated algebra but I loved to multiply". Love that line and the whole song

Illustration Friday - Adrift

2010-02-17T07:58:00.000-08:00

a pastel I did a while ago of a swan on the Grand River near Elora, Ontario

Illustration Friday - Muddy

2010-02-07T08:10:00.000-08:00

The great blues singer and guitarist, Muddy Waters. Back in 1973 when I met my wife one of our first dates was seeing Muddy and his band at the Colonial Tavern in Toronto. He was already in his late fifties and sat down throughout his performance but his voice and guitar playing were wonderful.

illustration Friday - Focused

2010-02-02T19:04:00.000-08:00

A late night self portrait, for various reasons these late night efforts require more focus

Illustration Friday - Clumsy

2010-01-25T11:48:00.000-08:00

some clumsy shading here though I like to think it was deliberate, and definitely a clumsy attempt to make this picture fit the topic

Illustration Friday - Wilderness

2010-01-19T13:32:00.000-08:00

the beautiful Pacific rain forest in British Columbia

Illustration Friday - Confined

2010-01-12T14:42:00.000-08:00

I originally did this pastel from a photo I took at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, I eliminated the cage bars for my pastel. For this topic I put them in using Gimp. I have mixed feelings about zoos, on one hand it's great to see th animals close up, on the other hand they are often confined to rather small areas

Illustration Friday - Renewal

2010-01-05T08:51:00.000-08:00

I had a hard time thinking of an image for this so I did a few Internet searches and discovered a pagan symbol for renewal, the eagle. Apparently for the celts the eagle symbolized renewal, courage and intelligence and teaches how to rejuvenate and renew one’s life.

Illustration Friday - Pioneers

2009-12-28T12:06:00.000-08:00

Little Richard, one of the pioneers of Rock and Roll. A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo!

Illustration Friday - Undone

2009-12-21T08:45:00.000-08:00

it's amazing how quickly everything can come undone

Illustration Friday - Hatch

2009-12-13T17:08:00.000-08:00

judging by the bottles it looks as if these guys have poured a few "down the hatch". Yes, it is a bit of a stretch for the topic, I just wanted to draw another accordion player

Illustration Friday - Crunchy

2009-12-07T09:07:00.000-08:00

some nice crispy and crunchy vegetables

Illustration Friday - Entangled

2009-11-30T07:25:00.000-08:00

spiders depend on insects getting entangled in their webs for their survival - and they also seem to trigger some primal fears within us

Illustration Friday - Music

2009-11-21T20:00:00.000-08:00

this topic was easy, I've been reading E. Annie Proulx's Accordion crimes and I love the drawings of accordion playes on Coreopsis' Blog Occasional Musings and Scratchings so I knew I needed to draw an accordion player - this is actually a bandoneon but I'm not sure of the difference. This is based on the wonderful photograph on FLICKR by jovivebo

Illustration Friday - Unbalanced

2009-11-17T10:12:00.000-08:00

had a very hard time coming up with anything for this topic, well, you have to deliberately unbalance a seesaw for it to be any fun.

Illustration Friday - Blur

2009-11-09T14:11:00.000-08:00

we recently went to Chicago mainly to see the recently completed Contemporary Gallery part of the Art Institute Of Chicago. Like the rest of the museum it was wonderful, one of the best art museums I've seen. There was a room of works by Gerhard Richter including some of his blurred out of focus paintings based on black and white photos. This is a quick pen and brush portrait of Richter touched up in Gimp with the Gaussian Blur filter

Illustration Friday - Skinny

2009-11-01T19:47:00.000-08:00

The first person I thought of for this topic was Twiggy, as it says on her website - Twiggy was the world's first supermodel: a skinny kid with the face of an angel who became an icon.

Illustration Friday - Fast

2009-10-25T15:09:00.000-07:00

Gandhi was one of the most interesting political figures of the 20th Century. He used fasting extensively as a non violent means to attain political goals as shown in these excerpts from a biographical timeline

1932 - In September, while still in jail, Gandhi begins a "fast unto death" to improve the status of the Untouchable caste. The fast ends after six days when the British Government accepts a settlement agreement between the Untouchables and higher caste Indians.

1933 - In April Gandhi fasts for 21 days to again focus attention on the plight of the Untouchables. He is released from jail during this fast but rearrested with his wife and 30 followers on 31 July after commencing a new "individual" civil disobedience campaign and sentenced to a year in jail.

1943 - On 10 February Gandhi begins a 21-day fast to win his freedom. The British are unmoved and refuse to release him from custody.

1947 - Sectarian riots erupt as Muslims in India flee to Pakistan while Hindus in the Pakistan flee the opposite way. As many as two million die in north India, at least 12 million become refugees, and a limited war over the incorporation of Kashmir into India breaks out between the two nation states. Gandhi pleas for peace, using fasts to shame rioting mobs into order.

"If the peace is broken again I will come back and undertake a fast unto the death and die if necessary," he warns.

1948 - On 30 January Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi while on his way to his evening prayer meeting. His assassin is a Hindu extremist who opposes Gandhi's willingness to engage in dialogue with Muslims.

Illustration Friday - Frozen

2009-10-21T14:58:00.000-07:00

Icicle formations by Lake Ontario, winter is coming, this year I'm determined to enjoy it

Illustration Friday - Flying

2009-10-14T06:57:00.000-07:00

there is very little more beautiful than large birds of prey soaring in the sky

Illustration Friday - Germs

2009-10-04T12:39:00.000-07:00

based on what I've been reading in the papers about Swine flu and what not else they are coming to get us, wash your hands, folks

Illustration Friday - Pattern

2009-09-27T20:39:00.000-07:00

I wasn't sure what to do for this topic, too many possibilities really, but I think this works quite well

Illustration Friday - Infinite

2009-09-20T13:50:00.000-07:00

I will be away most of next week so I am posting this older oil painting for the topic. Watching a beautiful sunset is one of those moments when I feel that I perhaps get a small glimpse of infinity

Illustration Friday - Welcome

2009-09-16T16:29:00.000-07:00

it was a pleasure to welcome back my favourite TV show for a third season. Mad Men has great writing, an amazing cast and top notch production values. One of the best shows ever

Illustration Friday - Strong

2009-09-05T20:22:00.000-07:00

I was looking through some old sketchbooks and these 2 coloured pencil efforts from 1984 seemed to fit this week's topic very well

Illustration Friday - Magnify

2009-09-02T14:35:00.000-07:00

sometimes magnification shows us things we'd rather not see, this is loosely based on a photo of a splash of seawater from the ocean off Hawaii, the crab-like thing is the size of a grain of rice. Anyone want to go swimming?

Illustration Friday - Caution

2009-08-26T19:49:00.000-07:00

always use caution when cooking with hot peppers, a little goes a long way

Illustration Friday - Wrapped

2009-08-17T10:17:00.000-07:00

Christo and Jean-Claude are famous for their large scale art projects many of which involve wrapping buildings or landscapes such as a Paris bridge and the Berlin Reichstag. They are controversial but I love their work, I was fortunate to be able to see the Gates installation in Central Park

Illustration Friday - Impatience

2009-08-08T20:34:00.000-07:00

We have all heard the term "Impatient As A Flamingo", have we not?
Well, probably not, I just made it up since I couldn't think of anything else for this topic.

Illustration Friday - Modify

2009-08-01T13:32:00.000-07:00

I started with a portrait in sepia ink of the late Irish novelist, John McGahern, a current favourite of mine. I modified it by reworking it with black ink and then I subsequently used an old Microsoft Paint It program and made 2 other modified versions

Illustration Friday - Hollow

2009-07-15T10:40:00.000-07:00

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

from the poem by T.S. Eliot

Illustration Friday - Shaky

2009-07-08T11:50:00.000-07:00

Ch-ch-ch-ee-ee-ee-r-s. Cheers!

Illustration Friday - Worn

2009-06-27T20:26:00.000-07:00

Worn out, this sketch is based on one of Duane Hanson's great sculptures, this one's called "The Executive". It reminds me of many nights on the commuter train back from work, I used to think of it as the Night of the Living Dead

Illustration Friday - Drifting

2009-06-24T04:33:00.000-07:00

I really had a hard time coming up with something for this topic, this is a quick sketch of a boat in the Havana harbour

Illustration Friday - Unfold

2009-06-13T20:43:00.000-07:00

"The universe is unfolding as it should." Many would argue whether Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the greatest Prime Minister Canada ever had, but most would agree that he was the most intelligent. He famously used this quote from Desiderata on a number of occasions

Illustration Friday - Craving

2009-06-07T19:50:00.000-07:00

I gave up cigarettes a long time ago and I finally gave up cigars a few years ago but the craving is still not completely gone

Illustration Friday - Adapt

2009-05-31T20:40:00.000-07:00

It was Charles Darwin who said: "Survival is ultimately dependent on the ability to change and evolve". These days it is put a little more succinctly: "Adapt or die."

Illustration Friday - Cracked

2009-05-23T14:06:00.000-07:00

the old style hard boiled private eyes like Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade usually cracked a few skulls before they cracked the case

Illustration Friday - Contagious

2009-05-17T14:24:00.000-07:00

perhaps the most famous contagious disease is the plague that devastated Europe. The great sculptor Bernini lost a brother to the plague, his work Damned Soul, apparently a self portrait, evokes the horror the disease must have created

Illustration Friday - Parade

2009-05-09T13:35:00.000-07:00

We've been having a lot of fun watching the rapidly growing baby geese in the conservation area behind our backyard so I made this quick Mothers Day card, I think it suits this topic as well

Illustration Friday - Hierarchy

2009-05-05T12:30:00.000-07:00

Henry VIII's lust for Anne Boleyn ultimately led to his separating the Anglican church from the Roman hierarchy

Illustration Friday - Theater

2009-04-29T14:42:00.000-07:00

my first experience of live theatre was when our 12th grade English class was bused to Toronto to see a touring production of Cabaret. It was great and one of only 2 musicals I've seen that I liked, the other being Fiddler on The Roof

Illustration Friday - Impossibility

2009-04-19T18:37:00.000-07:00

Impossible Barbie. This is from an episode of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: “If Barbie was a real person, she would be six feet tall and weigh only a hundred pounds. Her measurements would be 39-19-33. Her neck would be twice the length of an average person’s, and she would wear a size three children’s shoe. If she were life sized she wouldn’t be able to walk with those tiny feet and her top-heavy frame, and she couldn’t have both a trachea and an esophagus because her neck was too narrow. She would have to choose between breathing and eating. With a figure like that I’m guessing she’s gonna choose breathing.”

Illustration Friday - Fleeting

2009-04-12T12:55:00.000-07:00

in the middle of a wonderful vacation in Pensacola Beach, I never tire of watching the waves roll in, that moment when they break and crash. This is a bit sloppy but maybe has a bit of that energy

Illustration Friday - Talisman

2009-04-03T19:51:00.000-07:00

good luck charms and magic, we could all use them

Illustration Friday - Poise

2009-04-01T08:33:00.000-07:00

leading the pool aerobics in Panama

Illustration Friday - Subtract

2009-03-23T14:54:00.000-07:00

Take 2 popular children's stories and subtract 2 from each one and you end up with one blind mouse and one little pig

Illustration Friday - Legendary

2009-03-14T20:16:00.000-07:00

The legendary actor Errol Flynn playing the legendary character Robin Hood

Illustration Friday - Intricate

2009-03-06T11:20:00.000-08:00

these tulips seem simple until you try to draw them and then you realize how intricate they actually are

Illustration Friday - Breezy

2009-03-01T21:07:00.001-08:00