Another meeting. Another batch of artwork done! Needed to riddle a stack of pencils for projects and did a bunch during a two and a half hour meeting…Participated in the meeting, too! Even got to ink a bit. Next is to send off the pencil work to a slew of clients for OKs, then I can figure time to ink some and color some. Some of these i can show final versions of later.

This watercolor painting I finished last night will be in the silent auction at the Marion County Springs Festival tomorrow, Saturday the 24th, at Rainbow Springs State Park. The educational and music filled event runs from 10am to 4pm. Come on out and maybe you can nab this for 20 bucks!

A good investment of three hours holed up in the back of a Steak ‘n Shake in Leesburg as I got two cartoons penciled and inked and finished a watercolor painting for a silent auction Saturday. I’ll post further about the painting on Friday.

Here are the pencils of a new watercolor painting that will be part of the silent auction at the Marion County Springs Festival this coming Saturday. More to come.

Swampy’s Florida Prints – Picnic at Biscayne Bay.

Here’s the last of the nine watercolor paintings of Biscayne Bay beach set. This was the last one I needed to finish and I only found time today to do it. This wraps up the set and will show all nine when they are set for the gallery catalog they are going in.

Getting near finished with the nine part series! Here’s another finished! More to come!

Here’s a painting I finished while here at the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair in The Coliseum in St. Petersburg. This is one part of a three part set …. which is part of a nine part series. More to come.

Over the last three hours been in a corner of the ol’ Chelsea Coffee Shop working frantically on getting six watercolor paintings done. Close, but no cigar. Will show a few as they are completed.

Hunkered down in a coffee shop working on the next Swampy’s Florida book: Swampy’s Florida: Doolittle Raiders at Eglin Air Force Base.

This for the, what has been labeled as of this past weekend, the last reunion of the members of the Jimmy Doolittle Raiders. The event takes place April 17th through the 20th in Fort Walton Beach.

This Swampy book has a bit of history of Fort Walton Beach, Eglin Air Force Base and of the heroes of the Doolittle Raid. Lots of drawings of historic B-25s, other World War II aircraft and aircraft carriers.

Here are the first three of a series of three beach side watercolor paintings I’m doing for a gallery catalogue. Above is a close up.

I had the opportunity to paint these in Julianne’s Costal Cottage during the Mount Dora Arts Festival. Her store’s theme is also beachy which helped get me in more of a beach mood to paint.

Just chug-a-lugged out eleven pencil drawings of a series of beach scenes I’ll be doing later in February.

Stopped for dinner at Ashley’s Restaurant in Rockledge, Florida, for dinner and to get a little work done. Ate a fine prime rib and got the 11 drawings done in two hours and a half!

More to come as I work on each. Suffice it to write that I’ll be using lots of yellow ochre and cerulean blue!