Some inking done today for an upcoming book for the Fisher House of the Emerald Coast that helps military families with a place to stay while their military service person is cared for in nearby medical facilities.

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Here’s my 1st contribution to the month long #Inktober2016. Since My volunteering at the Florida Springs Restoration Summit 2016 as part of the Silver Springs Alliance gave me a chance to sketch a bit and did a “signing” of one of my Swampy books – An otter along the waters of Lake Okeechobee.

The sketches are of, clockwise from left, Congresswoman Gwen Graham speaking to crowd, Clay Henderson using technology, Dr. Bob Knight and Richard (Whitey) Markle strumming his gee-tar. White also is running for a tiny office in Marion County for Soil & Water Conservation and I recommend a vote for him! The other fellow doesn’t know his soil from a conservation. 😀

Navigating a year of all sorts of difficulties, I caught up on a bunch of projects in August so i could concentrate on 4 Swampy books in September. Two got delayed after my father’s death. I’ll post various stages of the various pages of the various books here. Here are two roughed pages for a book of the Fisher House (A place to stay for military service families) at Eglin Air Force Base near Pensacola.

I’m working on a very varied lot of projects right now. This is one of those. Rough pencils involving  fishing and caring for the fishing areas. These coloring pages are for a larger project I’m working on.

During a long meeting i was a part of i got a bunch of doggie drawings done of Bunji Glover for Two Hens and a Hound in Lakeland.

Here’s my painted watercolor version of the little boy and Dick van Dyke and a penguin.

This is for the family of the little boy they have adopted. The couple was fostering the child due to the actual parent’s drug issues. The child became available for adoption and the two 57 year olds decided to start a new life with a young one. This is for a celebration party for the adoption.

This was done with watercolor on board. Had a lot of trouble with the stripes and wish I’d used color pencil to mark them.

Just finished meeting of the Friends of Silver Springs State Park & got some work done!

The little boy I drew, I am told, starts laughing & getting extremely excited anytime dick van Dyke appears on a TV screen. It started while he watched, the film, ‘Mary Poppins’. The parents have shown him other videos of van Dyke and the reaction is the same. The boy is all of a year and a half old.

Penciled and prepped during the meeting this illustration of a young child person who has a fascination with the perpetual energetic Dick van Dyke. This is the prep before I add watercolor. I’ll post the finished painting tomorrow.

Also pencilled and inked a brilliant political cartoon, too. Ken Culotta called me before the meeting with the gag. Finish of that can be seen in the areas I post those. 😀

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Hope you had a Happy Birthday!
Was hoping to post this earlier, but Wednesday did not go as planned.

I’ve just finished new Allerbuddies artwork for new cute wombat bracelets for little ones to make sure all know what they are allergic to. These are the inked versions before I colored them.

Click here to get your own Allerbuddies medical bracelets: https://www.allerbuddies.com.au

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A part of a project I’m working on: Artwork for a Christmas themed run. Here’s the easy part for me. Now to put together the rest. I’ll post when done.

There’s artwork of mine for another run in November for a different organization and I’m trying to make sure the artwork for that looks different. An alligator involved. I’ll post that very soon! Does the elf look different enough from the Critter Run artwork, Kathy Bailey?

I’ll not get into my favorite subject, politics, here. But I will post this fun photo of me, Randy Osborne, David Moore and a duck! We were at a Campaign Victory party as primary results rolled in Tuesday night. Me and Randy support David, worked on his campaign and so glad he won. One issue that angered me was that his opponent had, while in office, ordered the death of a set of ducks that complaints had come in about. A rotten thing to do.

So as the three of us gathered for a photo, I quickly drew the duck to join us as we all support the ducks, too!

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