Tag: Florida Outdoors!
December 25th, 2014 – Christmas Hike!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Dec.25, 2014, under Florida Outdoors!
Been taking my annual Christmas hike. This year at the Ross Prairie Trailhead of the Cross Florida Greenway.
November 26th,2014 – 1 of my newest watercolor paintings: Christmas at Silver Springs, Florida.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Nov.26, 2014, under Illusration
Christmas at Silver Springs! Meant to post this final version of the artwork earlier. Took me a while to get back to. Made especially for a group I’m with, the Marion County Springs Festival. This will also be available as cards and prints.
On the #drawing board: Start of a mural of Cracker Florida!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.15, 2014, under Cartooning
This is just a small sample of a twenty foot wide mural I’m starting on. This part is of a stream with a cypress tree. In the stream is a bear and bunny making there way along. The mural also includes a Cracker-style home, a Florida panther cooking and, of course, an alligator – playing a banjo. I’ll add updates as I go along.
September 6th, 2014 – Signing Books in Homosassa Springs State Park.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.07, 2014, under What's New?
On the #drawing board today: Signed and drew in lots and lots of Swampy’s Florida books today at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park for “Speak Up Homosassa Springs”. Here are a couple photos from teh event.
The young fellow was funny. I asked him about what he likes and found him very articulate. So as he spoke of how he would like to wash things, I asked what he would like to wash. A car. How will you be sure the cars get washed? Will you be a manager? Yes. And on it went. He’s a thinking youngster and hope he stays that way!
July 2nd, 2014 – Today on the drawing board: Turtle Birthday Greetings!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.03, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
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.
June 18th, 2014 – Today on the drawing board: Dancing Gator!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.19, 2014, under Cartooning
Penciled and inked quite a bit today. Here’s one of the pieces – a dancing gator for Swampy’s Florida. This is set to be one of the prints that will be of a single character. Also it’s planned to be used for one of the greeting cards. Now it needs to be prepped for digital color.
June 13th, 2014 – Today on the drawing board: Inked on an airboat!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.14, 2014, under Cartooning
Here’s the inked version of the pencils posted earlier this week. Approved and ready for color, which I’ll get to next week.
June 11th, 2014 – Today on the drawing board: Pencils of cartoon illustration for musician’s t-shirt.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.11, 2014, under Cartooning
Here’s are the pencils for a proposed t-shirt design for a musician. It goes in for approval and let’s see what happens. If i can, I’ll try to post the final art as it comes along.
I ordinarily would include the background, but in this is for a t-shirt, simplicity is important. It might still be added. I do get into other details from chickens to fish. I’m likely to really tone those down quite a bit when inked.
June 10th, 2014 – Today on the drawing board: Hiking cartoon in progress!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.11, 2014, under Cartooning
This is the inked version of a gag cartoon I’m working on at the moment. My approach is a lot looser than I normally ink. I know that the color needs to tell part of the story, so I backed off tighter inking. The cartoon is due this week and I still have to format in a panel template and then color. I have a set of cartoons to color and plan to color them all at the same time.
May 29th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board – ‘Oranges in Pine Castle’ painting.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.29, 2014, under Illusration, Swampy's Florida
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.
May 27th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Prepping a studio caricature!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.27, 2014, under Caricatures, Florida Outdoors!
Here are the pencils for two people who volunteered at Silver Springs State Park to clean up the Silver River and area around it. it’s figured they’ve raised some $3,000 in cans collected.
This is the pencil version that I’m sending in for approval. After approval, I have another step for prep and then adding watercolor. I’m sure to post the finished artwork in the next couple days.
I have a painting to also paint and plan to do both at the same time.