Today was my friend Richard Lorenz’s 60th BDay! He had a big wing ding at his new digs near the Lake and Seminole borders. Guess what I did? Here’s Jeff, a good gun-toting American! Everybody duck!

After more than five hours of drawing, I only took one photo and it was my next to last drawing. I gotta do better than that!

Volusia County Sheriff’s Mike Dye drove up from Deland to have this painted for his colleague who is retiring after twenty years of public service. Above is a photograph of the watercolor caricature I created over at Chelsea Coffee for Mike today.

I’m also linking this to Illustration Friday, since it’s subject this week is ‘Sail’.

Guess what I did today?

Guess what I did today?

Guess what I did today?

Working a way again with Turner Classic Movies on and along comes Red Skelton. I love his old radio shows. I join many others as a huge fan of the Mean Widdle Kid who would cause alsorts of mayhem. He would sometimes reconsider his daring deed and then charge forward anyway: “I dood it!”. That is the name of this 1943 Vincent Minelli film. In ‘I Dood It!’ there’s lots of great music and Eleanor Powell dancing, too!

While I was working I had two Glenn Ford films running on Turner Classic Movies. First it was ‘3:10 to Yuma’ and then it was ‘Jubal’. I quickly did a sketch of Ford above.

I remember first drawing Ford as part of a huge crowd trying to pay their income taxes when I was about 14. It was for an my art class at Robert E. Lee Junior High School in Orlando. I specifically recall noticing how very big Ford’s ears were. Seeing photos as he got older those ears got bigger and bigger. I saw a photo of him not long before he died almost two years ago and there were those ears again. I sometimes wonder if I’ve been watching Ford all of these years or his ears!

My friend LeAnn Weiss got married today at Discovery Church in Edgewood. I’ve known LeAnn for a couple decades working with the Republican party back in the mid and late ’80s and into the ’90s from the Young Republicans to the Orange County Republican Executive Committee to many political campaigns. Over the years she switched gears and became an author and has produced a jillion books. Above are just a small part of the decorations. Those hung from the ceiling and were quite a few feet tall.

After the wedding I went into caricature mode as you can see above.

Created a group caricature. I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but I’ve worked with the family before and decided to do it. I drew the whole thing in their house. Below is Sheila Austria who is also Mom of the quintet and playing a violin in the picture.

As I was working on the Glenn Beck cartoon for Tuesday, I had Turner Classic Movies on. ‘Teachers Pet’ was on and as I tried to figure how best to depict All Gore’s latching onto presidential candidate Obama, I started sketching Gable. I thought I’d post it here.

If I don’t have political programs on, I have Turner Classic Movies on. I just love older films and their more realistic depiction of life instead of the melodramatic and action/adventure fantasy world depicted today.