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July 26th, 2010 - Artwork Done

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.28, 2010, under What's New?

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Haven’t been going anywhere in the past week, just working on artwork. Above is a photo of a flock of artwork done in about 3 hours today.

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July 17th, 2010 - Hey! Hey! It’s the Monkees!!!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.17, 2010, under What's New?

I ran across ‘The Monkees Go Mod’ while perusing a bookstore and I thought I’d share a couple pages of cartoon artwork from the 1967 book. Both are drawn by Dick Hodgins, Jr. If the style has a Dennis the Menace type look, that’s because Hodgins was an assistant to Hank Ketcham drawing Ketcham’s strip ‘Half Hitch’ and helping with the Dennis strip.

Hodgins’ dad was also a cartoonist. For years he was staff cartoonist for The Orlando Sentinel in Orlando, Florida. While at the Sentinel he drew a history of Orlando comic strip and a ton of other art. Later Hodgins, Sr. joined his friend Jim Ivey at Jim’s ‘The Cartoon Museum’ to teach cartooning classes. I was one of the lucky ones to take one of those classes. I’ll have to post some Hodgins, Sr. art sometime.

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July 11th, 2010 - Swampy’s Florida

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.11, 2010, under Caricatures, What's New?

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Here’s some new art I’m doing for Swampy’s Florida. The new strip will be up Tuesday which begins a little trip for Swampy, Pasco Pete and Bunny. Starting a lot of trouble is Ma Watson who arrives looking to hunt Swamp Apes.

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July 7th, 2010 - A Caricature Gift

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.07, 2010, under What's New?

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This is a caricature illustration I did a few weeks ago for Donna Hartsfield, above. I met her at a restaurant near in Winter Park, Florida, and produced the entire piece there.  I didn’t want to post the photo until the recipient received it. Jeff was presented with the art last weekend, so here’s the photo of Donna and the art.

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July 2nd, 2010 - Artwork!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.03, 2010, under What's New?

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Too much swirling around to work in the studio, so for the first time a quite a while I headed over to Chelsea Coffee and knocked a whole lot of artwork out in an hour and a half. Above is a photo of some of it.

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June 25th, 2010 - A stop for dinner…

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.25, 2010, under Books, Florida Restaurants, Sandra, Sketchbook, What's New?

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I made a pit stop at ABC Pizza for dinner last Wednesday night in Zypherhills. The sketch above is of part of the interior. The building was once a Biff Burger changed over twice to be an ABC Pizza. More Sunday on Swampy’s Florida!

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May 15th, 2010 - Caricatures!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.17, 2010, under Caricatures, What's New?

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Here are some caricatures I drew this past weekend!

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Pedro, above, is a young 97 years old! It seems fishing is a key to his youth!

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May 3rd, 2010 - Happy Birthday, Mary Carver!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.03, 2010, under What's New?

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Today is the birthday of actress, Mary Carver, who played the mother, Cecelia Simon, to those bickering sibling detectives in the very popular 1980’s series ‘Simon and Simon’.

I drew this for the Simon and Simon fan club on Yahoo, which I’m not as much a part of than I’d like.

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