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The King has climbed the building

This week’s blog is a mash-up of two pop culture icons. A lip curling hip shaker and a web spinning wall crawler. I spent the last week in Memphis and while I was there I was introduced to The Spectacular … Continue reading →

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The basin and the towel

Every once in a while I start a doodle without knowing exactly where I’m going- honesty cops say stop that sentence and start again. Every once in a while I start a doodle knowing exactly where I am going with … Continue reading →

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The Wheat and the chaff

Jesus told a parable (an illustrating story) about a farmer that spreads his wheat seeds on different types of ground. The wheat that lands on the path is trampled and doesn’t grow at all. The wheat that lands on the … Continue reading →

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A long time ago…

This week is going back to the theme of strong women. This was a drawing based on a Princess Leia costume. The background was snagged from an image online and significantly altered with Illustrator live trace and Photoshop filters. I … Continue reading →

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Don’t drive angry

Groundhog’s day is one of my favorite movies. I think that it’s perhaps Bill Murray’s greatest, although he is pretty brilliant in Zombieland. In the extras on the DVD the creators said that one of the points of the film … Continue reading →

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When you can’t run, you crawl

When you can’t run, you crawl and when you can’t crawl you find someone to carry you.  A great line from a great series. This drawing is inspired by a character in the series Firefly. The quote is from the … Continue reading →

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A Trio of Superheroes

Here I am back at Superman. This week’s post was inspired by a graphic novel that I just took out of the library that teams up Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. I started my warm ups with a couple of … Continue reading →

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Spooooooon

In the midst of the wild variety of sketch cards I did for last week’s blog I placed one sketch of myself as The Tick. That was the card that got the most responses and it inspired me to do … Continue reading →

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Artist Card Fever

This week is a sketch card extravaganza. I’ve been seeing sketch cards for a while now, but I wasn’t quite sure what they were. I recently became aware of two different kinds of sketch cards. There are original artists trading … Continue reading →

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You’re only as good as your reference

During one of my classes at the Art Institute of Philadelphia the professor said, “You’re only as good as your reference.” Trusting student that I was, I immediately began challenging the statement in my mind. I had seen many fellow … Continue reading →

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