#15 in the series of Swampy’s Florida premieres this Saturday at the Florida SpringsFestival at Silver Springs State Park. Swampy …and me…will be there with all of the books to sign and doodle in. Stop by and let’s talk about traveling our great state of Florida to discover more of it’s incredible history, heritage and culture!

I’ll also be videoing more ‘Man in the Swamp’ reports there! Step in for a quickie interview!

Here’s one of my newest watercolor paintings to join the Swampy’s Florida lineup. At a suggestion by a friend I added a tutu to a Florida black bear and got a character Barishnikov would want to team with.

This is a watercolor painting and will be available soon as a Swampy’s Florida print.

This is the finished color art for an upcoming Swampy’s Florida product. There’s a bit more to this, but I’m leaving that for the Swampy’s Florida page. Look for it there.

Time for me to get back to “On the Drawing Board”. Sure motivated me to get more artwork done. This is for the Swampy website to help explain the characters. Been meaning to do this for a long time and a conversation with friend Cheryl Otero and listening in on motivator Bob “The Teacher” got me to set some other art aside and get this done. First met Bob over five years ago during the great Ken MacArthur’s motivating conference.

Clcik here to see where I used this artwork on the Swampy’s Florida website.

Another of the images being used for upcoming Swampy’s Florida Christmas cards! It’s ready for color!

Here’s a colored version of Santa Gator for a new line of Swampy’s Florida Christmas cards available soon from The Knowledge Exchange.

Another of the upcoming Swampy’s Florida birthday card series. this time with a turtle. Have another coming with an alligator soon. I’ll post when the cards will be available for purchase.

A few days ago I posted the setup for this watercolor painting. Here’s the finished artwork. It’s for a show of Florida artists at the Pine Castle Women’s Club in south Orange County starting June 1st. This will also be available as a Swampy’s Florida print (#38) soon.

The Pine Castle Women’s Club art show is comprised of Florida artists presenting Florida history in various mediums.

Announcing a Swampy’s Florida Kickstarter program to get five Swampy’s Florida books produced! In the past three years I’ve produced 14 Swampy books, 37 prints, 2 DVDs and seven cards. There’s lots more to come! However, I’ve poured a ton of time in all of this and have more than run out of resources to produce more without backing. Funding will ensure more educational and activity books available to help young people know more about the great state of Florida.

Click here to head over to Kickstarter!

There’s a goal to get five funded by June 21st! Lots of goodies! I’ll even try to hand deliver the goodies if the donor falls within my travels this Fall.

The five books are:
–  Historical Women of Florida
– Florida History Puzzles and Games
– A Short History of  trains in Florida
– Birds of Florida
– Fish and Aquatic Life in Florida

All five will be coloring and travel guide books and able to be used in home schooling or just for fun!

There will be constant updates here as I build all five books.

But wait! There’s more!
There are four other books involved that are left over prior to the new arrangement with The Knowledge Exchange. These four will also be completed at the same time:
– Polk County- Titusville
– Dunnellon
– Marion County ABC
The funding will also loosen my time to wrap up these four books.

All will be available by Fall.

I hope you will help me in getting these books out and to beter help educate our young people of Florida’s incredible history, heritage and culture.

Thank you to The Knowledge Exchange, for so much help, and Dave Stewart, who produced the video on the site and gave sage advice, for all their help putting this together. I’ll have to share the video here as the next month goes along.

Thank you to all that donate to this project!
I’ll be posting updates here as this Kickstarter program continues!

Here’s the inked cover of the penciled drawing I showed yesterday. I used my many years with the City of Orlando in the Planning and Engineering Departments to map out a condensed, but doable, community. This is for a give-away during this week’s Florida Parent Educators Association annual convention by The Knowledge Exchange. This is to encourage ravel in Florida and beyond! thus, the mountains in the background….or it could also be a mountain version of the old Florida Festival tent that was once across from Sea World in south Orange County.