Tag: Florida art
March 10th, 2014 – Happy Easter Gator!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.09, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Here is one of two images available soon as Swampy’s Florida Easter cards! The cards will be available above in the Swampy store at the top of the website being handled by The Knowledge Exchange. The cards would also be available at Julianne’s Coastal Cottage in Mount Dora. I’ll be posting the other Easter card art later this week.
March 9th, 2014 – Swampy’s Florida: Silver Springs preview!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.09, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Here’ s a bit of art that will be in the upcoming ‘Swampy’s Florida: Silver Springs’ I’m working on! Putting the book together now and hope for it to be avaialble in about three weeks.
February 13th, 2014 – What I was drawing: A Valentine Gill-Man with a Hot Dog!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.13, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
While helping sell the new Swampy’s Florida Valentine line of greeting cards, I also did a small drawing on the back. A wife was telling me about her husband and his liking of the Gil-Man, of the ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ movie. He also likes hot dogs. So, the imagery above. Below is a photo of me drawing during the event February 2nd.
February 11th, 2014 – What I’m Drawing: Hiking in Florida!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.11, 2014, under Cartooning, Illusration
This is part of the Florida Trail Association cartoon I illustrate for each issue of their Footprint magazine. The Florida Trail Association is the organization for hiking throughout Florida. I need to occasionally post some of the cartoons I made for past issues. I won’t be posting the current cartoon, though, as that’s one of the benefits of membership when getting the Underfoot magazine. 🙂
January 9th, 2014 – Lots of work to do Today!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.09, 2014, under Caricatures, Cartooning, Illusration
Tons of artwork has to get done today! From caricatures to hiking cartoons to illustration, etc! Was hoping to be at a presentation today by Rick Smith, son of author Patrick Smith who wrote the Florida legendary book, ‘A Land Remembered’, but that looks impossible two hours before his presentation. Pen to paper and I’ll post what I can.
February 9th, 2014 – What I’m drawing: Springs Symposium Watercolor Painting #3 – Ryan Smart!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.09, 2014, under Caricatures, Cartooning, Illusration
On January 28th I was part of a symposium about the condition of our springs in north Central Florida. My part was to illustrate each of the speakers. This is one of Ryan Smart, of the Florida Conservation Coalition, who spoke of legislation to help cover the issues of our Florida springs.
February 8th, 2014 – What I’m drawing: Swampy’s Florida Cartoon – Alligator!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.08, 2014, under Cartooning, Illusration
Here’s a piece of the Swampy’s Florida weekly cartoon that will appear tomorrow. The subject is Ma Barker, the famous gangster who met her end in Florida.
February 6th, 2014 – What I’m drawing: Editorial Cartoon!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.06, 2014, under Cartooning, Editorials
Because I keep politics out of the web of this website, this is a pantomime performance of these cartooned characters set up for this week’s editorial cartoon. Feel free to caption this yourself below!
This was penciled on paper, inked the same, scanned and colored.
February 5th, 2014 – What I’m drawing: My Springs Symposium Watercolor Painting #1
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.05, 2014, under Caricatures, Illusration
On January 28th I was part of a symposium about the condition of our springs in north Central Florida. My part was to illustrate each of the speakers. This is one of the set of Dr. Bob Knight, one of our most knowledgeable experts about water in Florida. Knowing Bob helped me play more here than i did with the others.
Bob opened his talk by announcing he had more bad news. I took it from there.
I’ll be posting the rest over the next week or so.
January 29th, 2014 – Springing to Illustrate Speakers about of Florida Springs
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.30, 2014, under Caricatures, Illusration, Swampy's Florida
Last night I was part of a Florida springs symposium with a wide variety of speakers updating the audience about the current status of our natural springs and about upcoming legislation.
My role was creating a unique painting of each speaker during their presentation. A few are on the table below. I have a bit of cleanup to do with each and I’ll post them here in the next week.
January 17th, 2014 – #DailyInks #17 – Melbourne, Florida, 1950s Construction!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.18, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Here’s a page from the upcoming ‘Swampy’s Florida: Melbourne’. Swampy and friends off to construct everything in sight as so many did around Melbourne in the 1950s. The book should be available in two months through The Knowledge Exchange.