Illustration Friday - Fluid

Very high on my list of favourite fluids

Illustration Friday - Popularity

I cannot comprehend the popularity of Dancing With The Stars. Who needs to see a bunch of obscure - at least to me - so-called celebrities embarrass themselves doing something they are not good at? There are so many excellent ballroom and performance dancers out there who almost no-one ever goes to see yet millions watch this nonsense. But maybe I'm just still annoyed that Lil Kim was eliminated so quickly the season she was on

Illustration Friday - Suspense

The great film director Alfred Hitchcock was oftem referred to as the master of suspense. I used to love his anthology series on TV when I was a kid

Illustration Friday - Forward

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

Illustration Friday - Twirl

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

Illustration Friday - Grounded

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

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