Here are some drawings from a couple of events!

Was in JPnte Vedra, near Jacksonville, drawing golf enthusiasts at the Players Club at Sawgrass Country Club. GREAT crowd! They each had so much to say about themselves and I got to really work out my creative juices in the storytelling of most of the drawings. Here are some photos!

Got a bunch of artwork done today in a couple hours. Two editorial cartoons, a bike drawing and the next Swampy’s Florida webcomic.

Hiding out in the corner of a Steak ‘n Shake produced these 4 in 3 hours.

The folks at the Florida Bibliophile Society were too kind to take up an entire page of their publication with a story about me and the talk I gave about how I construct the Swampy’s Florida coloring books this past February 19th. That’s way too many pictures of me!

A couple corrections are that I’m not currently a member of the caricature group and that I’m Florida Chapter Chairman of the NCS. Something not shown were the stack of personal books I brought to explain was my extensive use of books to research for each of the Swampy’s Florida coloring books.

Good thing a group about physically published books puts out a physically published magazine! – and it’s extremely well done, too!

Had to get a flurry of artwork done today! Here’s a montage of some of it!

Here are some photos of folks I drew on the 25th!

Here are a few pages from the new Swampy’s Florida Storybooks” Trilby’s Flower that I’m introducing at the 2012 Pine Castle Pioneer Days. Come out and say Hello! I’ll be drawing and painting live Saturday after 3pm and all day Sunday.

I gave a talk yesterday at the meeting of the Florida Bibliophile Society at the University of Tampa. Afterward I signed some Swampy coloring books.

It was a large group of all ages and I did my best to modify the talk to better fit the younger people there. Overall I spoke about using my library of Florida history along with my drawing abilities to create the whole Swampy business. That’s incredibly simplifying how Swampy came about, but I wanted to also get into how much I use social media to make connection with others who might enjoy learning more about our great state of Florida.

Added to the talk was a display of Florida memorabilia from my collection. I could have spoken for hours just about everything from a large Silver Springs matchbook to an action figure of the Crocket character from Miami Vice.

Of course, part of the Swampy goal is to get folks to shop locally, so I was glad that Terisa Glover was along for the talk so she could say a few words about working with local authors at her The General Store and her Authors and Illustrators Festival in Downtown Lakeland each October.

Did the caricature thing in Daytona Beach and Tampa Friday and Saturday!

Hard at work on the next Swampy’s Florida Coloring Book and Guide.