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Commissioned Painitng I did of a Book Signing Experience….

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.04, 2023, under What's New?

Painting I did 7 years ago for friend, Paul Skinner.

He’d gone to book signings of, authors, Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld….

BUT ONLY bought Perino’s book.

Thus, Dana and her dog signing the book and Gutfeld looking disgusted.

Gutfeld is known to have a pretend fascination with unicorns.

Below, I’ll post the photograph of the three.

This is watercolor on watercolor board, probably Arches.

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Drawing in to read: Books this past week…

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.13, 2022, under What's New?

Last weekend took a few days tidying home untidiness from the holiday times and flying through pages to get some reading in.

Finished the soon-to-be-published, disastrous ‘Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge’ that started as a smart biography the first half and midway shifted to the author’s emotional view of the director written as if we all would accept his view. A lot of this was from the narrow perspective of early 21st century American political views, than the more world-view the book started with.

Gladly finishing that, I jumped into “It’s the Pictures that got Small” of Wilder and his first major co-writer, Charles Brackett. Almost mid-way through that and finding the volume of mostly Brackett diary entries very enjoyable. Especially the parts with Brackett commenting of time with his old Algonquin Round Table pals, Alec Woollcott, Edna Ferber, Marc Connelly and Dorthy Parker (Have you read this, Agata Stanford ?).

As I read of Brackett’s work on the 1936 film ‘Piccadilly Jim’, I thought I’d seen the film. I hadn’t! It’s a film of a cartoonist! A Great film about a cartoonist! Wodehouse writes a character that, with one line, keenly demolishes our worth on the planet. The character may be right. 🙂

This had me wondering if the Wodehouse book I hadn’t read was also about a cartoonist. It isn’t. The book is much more outrageous and much fun.

I also read an advanced copy of ‘Soaring in Style: How Amelia Earhart Became a Fashion Icon’. The short volume is fashioned for children and botches Earhart’s history terribly to remodel for the title. Artwork is fine, but the P.C. reworking fits poorly for the 1920s. Reading some Wodehouse and those of that era would’ve helped straighten the head of the writer.

Here are links to the books recommended:   

‘It’s the Pictures that got Small : Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age’, edited by Anthony Slide and, Brackett’s grandson, Jim Moore :

https://amzn.to/3GrcrOk  

The book: ‘Piccadilly Jim’ by P.G. Wodehouse:

https://amzn.to/3zXbnzc  

The film: ‘Piccadilly Jim’ starring Robert Montgomery:

https://amzn.to/3qomFJS

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I’ve been teaching an art class….

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.06, 2021, under Cartooning, What's New?

The past few weeks I’ve been teaching an art class for an organization I’m with, Champions for Champions. The organization is of those with physical & learning disabilities.

Decided to take on creating a comic book short story that they would draw elements of and I’ll be adding a bit and assembling.

It’ll be a good guys versus bad guys and a successful ending! 🙂

Hope to have that done and out in March.

#Art #School #ArtClass #ArtSchool #Comics #comicbooks #Education #privateeducation

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My #Inktober #22 – Sleepy Kitty in color !

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Oct.23, 2020, under What's New?

#Inktober #22 – Sleepy Kitty !

Drawn improv. Off the top of my head.

No pencils. No plan. My favorite way to work!

The watercolor version is $10

to the first who sends a request.

Later $20 on Etsy.

Materials –

Pen: Zebra Onamae Mackee Double-Sided Name Marker – Fine / Extra Fine Twin Tip – Black Ink

https://www.jetpens.com/Zebra-Onamae-Mackee-Double-…/…/10841

Paper: Canson (100510941) XL Series Watercolor Pad

https://amzn.to/33idn6G

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If you would like to help cover the costs of pens, paper, etc.:

https://checkout.square.site/…/4U2QISDKFR6SHD3UKDLVR7J2…

#Art #Artlife #Kitty #Cat #catart #catartist #kittycat #sleep #Sleeping #artist #illustration #illustrationartists

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Part of an angel illustration I did for a Facebook series of drawings.

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.09, 2020, under What's New?

Part of one of the illustrations I’m doing as part of a weekly series you can see the entirely of over on The Log Whisperer at Old Log Houses by Thomas’ Facebook page.

Penciled and inked with a Kuretake brush on sketch paper.

Coloured in Photoshop.

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My sketching ideas for future projects…

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.05, 2020, under What's New?

topped at the live concert live I posted earlier about after dropping off artwork in Mount Dora, Florida.

While there I scribbled lots of notes and sketches involving some very near future projects that have bubbled up in the past week involving something another friend has got me brewing and ideas I’ve kicked about into a real plan.

More to come.

#Art #Sketch #Artwork #Sketching #Cartoon #Cartooning #ArtLife

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My two new #Dog #Watercolor #Paintings….

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.04, 2020, under What's New?

Here are the finished watercolor paintings of the two doggies.

The client wanted a memory of two dogs they lost over the years. The request was for the two dogs to notice a light above them.

I went ahead and did each illustration so that the two would connect.

After framing the two can be hung a bit of distance apart and still seem to connect.

These are each painted using watercolor on 11″x14″ illustration board.

Please let me know if you would like a piece of artwork from me! I’m offering great deals due to the virus situation we have found ourselves in..

#Dog #DogArt #Art #Artwork #illustration #PAinitng #Watercolorist #watercolorillustration #watercolor #dogwatercolor #dogpainting #supportsmallbusiness

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One of my watercolor caricature illustrations!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.02, 2020, under What's New?

Here’s a caricature illustration I did of my friend Joe Dallas Millado‘s mother!

It’s watercolor on 11″x 14″ illustration board.

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My newest watercolor commission: A son of space and fantasy.

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.16, 2020, under What's New?

Here’s a watercolor painting I did for Denise Lappe of her son for his birthday a few weeks ago.

Her son loves video games and fantasy, so i combined those for this.

That’s watercolor on illustration board using various inking brushes.

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My #MerMay #3 of 4 mermaid illustrations for 5/31/2020!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.01, 2020, under What's New?

During the live drawing I did here Friday the commenting got me to drawing two of the participants as mermaids for #MerMay.

Here’s, illustrator, Jack Pittman as a MerMAN!

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#MerMay for May 5th – Happy National Cartoonists Day!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.06, 2020, under What's New?

#MerMay for May 5th.

It was National cartoonists Day and Ken Alvine reminded me of it. So, I tied it in with MerMay and the Tuesday Ha-Ba-Da-Bee!

Here’s the MerMay drawing!

This was ink on paper drawn live with no pencils or prep.

Just made it up as I went along!

#MayThe4thBeWithYo

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