Been working like a madman keeping up with deadlines. To the left is a pencil sketch of one of the many drawings and art I’ve been working at feverishly in the past week.

Above are sketches I made during a meeting I was at today.

When I saw the word of the week for Illustration Friday is ‘Theater’ I immediately thought of the work being done by our incredible military in the Mid-East. I had to knock this out fast as I’m buried in deadlines, but wanted to draw a small bit of action in the “theater”. So this is more illustrative than the cartoony art I usually do.

Below is some sketchy stuff I did before I rushed the above out. I realized I was getting way too involved in something I had to do very fast.

More and more most of the art I draw is at a local coffee shop where I get away from the phones, internet and various other distractions. Here’s one of the tables at the Chelsea Coffee shop with the drawing board that friend Richard Menard got me years ago, along with pens and an editorial cartoon. I clip the I-pod to the side of the board and listen to political talk shows.

An – impossibility -  most children would like to see as possible. Illustration Friday.

Two more Florida based mysteries read. One of Mignon Eberhart’s Tampa Bay novels and a later Miami-based Mike Shayne mystery. Eberhart writes of a fictious Florida County on the east coast with a pretty good understanding of the area. The Shayne novel is after the actual series by Dave Dresser. This one stays pretty true to the original series, just with curse words. I veered into one of Vince Flynn’s latest, ‘Protect and Defend’. Another good thriller.

Was at the Ormond Beach Memorial Art Museum at their annual fundraiser.

It’s another year entertaining at Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland for the SPCA.

Later had lunch with old friends Susie and Russell Noel at, one of my favorites, Jimbo’s Bar B Q.

I was handling the Marion County 9/12 Group and one in Osceola County. More at Rob’s Right by clicking here.

I was at the monthly Orlando Remembered meeting. Above is Duke Crittenden, Tana Porter, Charles Gray and Mayor Carl Langford. Below is a new comer, Melanie King, whose Grandfather designed the former Orange County Courthouse that the history museum is now using. Here Melanie King get’s the opening poster of the museum from museum curator, Sarah Van Arsdel.

I drew a lot of signs during the Orlando Tea Party. Here is one. For more photos of crowds and such click here at Rob’s Right.