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July 29th, 2013 – Swampy’s Florida Artwork

by on Jul.29, 2013, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

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Here’s a bit of art from an upcoming Swampy’s Florida book. More as it comes along. Should be done by the end of the month.

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June 30th, 2013: Book Cover – ‘Plague Ship’ by Andre Norton

by on Jun.30, 2013, under Various

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I thought I’d share one of the many book covers in my book collection. Here’s “Plague Ship’ by Andre Norton. The cover art is by Ed Emshwiller. Love this artwork. The message is: When escaping a plaque ship, don’t forget your alien bird.

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June 21st, 2013 – Newest watercolor painting of Six Gun Territory

by on Jun.21, 2013, under Illusration

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Here’s my newest watercolor painting! This one is of Six Gun Territory. The scene is lifted from a postcard and the humans are replaced with frogs. This is the Father’s Day card I gave to my father this past week.

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May 25th, 2013 – Another Swampy’s Florida painting

by on May.25, 2013, under Illusration, Swampy's Florida

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Started painting this this morning and just finished it here during the Florida Parents Educators Association convention in Osceola County, Florida. The setting is Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park near Pensacola..

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April 7th, 2013 – Coloring page for Swampy’s Florida!

by on Apr.07, 2013, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

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Here’s a cartoon illustration for an upcoming Swampy’s Florida book for Marion County, Florida. The ‘Swampy’s Florida: Marion County Museum of History’ coloring book is an A to Z count of items in the museum in coloring book form to help educate young people about the history of Marion County. I’ll post more images as they I get them drawn.

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April 3rd, 2013 – More artwork!

by on Apr.03, 2013, under Cartooning, Illusration

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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.

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March 28th, 2013 – Classroom Cartooning

by on Mar.28, 2013, under What's New?

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Made one of my twice-a-year trips to my friend George Pieper’s cartooning class to be a guest speaker. I demonstrated drawing the various presidents we’ve had since Carter and a bunch about my Swampy’s Florida project. As always, I ended the talk with a drawing made from suggestions of the students. Above is George and myself and the drawing drawn from suggestions.

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New Swampy’s Florida watercolor painting going to silent auction!

by on Mar.22, 2013, under Illusration

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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! :)

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March 13th, 2013 – Newest Painting: Picnic on Biscayne Bay!

by on Mar.13, 2013, under Illusration

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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.

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January 23rd, 2013: Pencil art for Florida beach prints

by on Jan.23, 2013, under Cartooning, Illusration, Swampy's Florida

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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!

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January 19th, 2013: Lots of artwork done in 3 hours!

by on Jan.19, 2013, under Caricatures, Cartooning

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Got a lot done in 3 hours at Chelsea Coffee shop. Pencils and prep for two caricature illustrations I’ll be watercoloring. Pencils for two advertising cartoons and inks for a gag cartoon. Now off to scan art and get approvals and plan when to break out the paints.

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