Swampy and friends celebrate National Elephant Appreciation Day!

Here’s the National Elephant Center website: http://www.nationalelephantcenter.org/

#ElephantAppreciationDay

Swampy and the gang head over to Golf-n-Gator in Cape Canaveral to celebrate Miniature Golf Day. Zuber, the cat, wonders if any of the gators in the surrounding pools are related to Trilby.

Golf-n-Gator is right on A1A in Cape Canaveral. Click here to plan a trip to practice your putting skills and see a few gators – http://www.golfngator.com/

#MiniatureGolfDay

Finished a watercolor painting today. Heres a watercolor version of the dinosaur from the other day.

A hurricane got in the way, but I finally got to finish coloring this piece. Here is part of the illustration. I’ll post the entire piece being used for many things, including a kayak and canoe event coming soon.
This was colored using PhotoShop.

LOTS of art to catch up with tho after the hurricane delay, so lots more posting to come.

Sunday started with a gopher tortoise in the middle of the road. It took s bit of time, but I waited for the fellow to move along a safer trail.

A drive to Orlando found me at the 90th Birthday party for a great man, Leon Handley. His daughter, Leann Handley and family did a Great job arranging and then re-arranging the party due to the hurricane. 

Quite a crowd showed up. Always great to see Peggy Jo van den Berg, Claude Wolfe, State Legislator Geraldine Thompson and so many others. Wonderful deserved tributes for Leon and an overall terrific event!

A short spin to Winter Park and I got to spend a bit of time with my very oldest friends who knew me before I was born. Meaning they knew me before I knew them! 😀 Always great to catch up and pick up tidbits of Winter Park from Sue and Curt Hill and their daughter, Elizabeth.

Spun from there for client approval of a project I can’t mention due to surprises and those Facebook friends I’m connected to. 🙂

From there I can’t thank Bettielee and Vince Sansone with their help passing along boxes of history books of the late, great Corb Sarchet. They so much helped Corb’s wife Dianne and had to work with my crazy schedule getting the last of this fantastic collection of history books to a good home!

Finally was a trip back into Winter Park to get with an old friend and Orlando City Hall colleague, Ben Gray. It was so great to see Ben who looks like I first remember seeing him some 30 years ago. Ben, pal Robert Bauerle and I talked Florida history, national & national issues and the various incarnations of Publix in the College Park area of Orlando. Finally have that straight in my head. 🙂

I type this in a mighty exhausted state in Mount Dora on my way home after a trip well worth taking. Thank you all!

Trilby, Zuber and Alva get in the pirate mood above. A couple centuries ago the above might not be such an unusual scene on certain parts of our Florida coastline. There were many pirates that thrived on getting treasure from passing ships.

#TalkLikeAPirate

Worked on a number of projects this evening. Including one involving this dinosaur. Not sure if the project will be approved and finished, but thought I’d share part of it.

So much keeps falling in the way of my completing this project. Been trying to digitally color as fast as I can in case I lose electricity.

Inked drawing for Monday’s Swampy’s Florida Celebration. Check the page Monday for the color version and just what this cartoon is celebrating.

Life sure has Ben taking sudden jerks and turns the last few weeks. Haven’t been posting about it all, but it sure has made things mighty complicated. Partly all to write why I haven’t been posting or been able to do much artwork. That has to change now – hurricane or no hurricane.
Thursday was my step-daughter’s 33rd birthday and here’s the birthday card I painted. Happy Birthday, Amber!

These are from a great wedding crowd Sunday night in Melbourne, Florida. 

I’ve performed for a number of events in the past few weeks but not had time to post about them and feel I may be posting too many of my caricatures. Here are a few showing the actual drawings and what two are about.

Jay is an aerospace engineering who keeps a t-square up in his office to remind the new kids where engineers came from. He also loves golf.

Tom is also in aerospace. He volunteers for a slew of charities and lives to play Monopoly.

Todd maintains an Ace Hardware in Brooksville, Florida. This year his Ace Pickett’s Hardware celebrates 50  years this year.