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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.
May 26th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Critters on the Run!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.26, 2014, under Cartooning, Florida Outdoors!
Today penciled and inked this illustration for a five mile run – for people – coming up this fall in Silver Springs State Park in Florida.
May 25th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board – A Fishing Salute!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.26, 2014, under Cartooning
Here is the colored version of artwork for the Stick Marsh Veterans Bass Challenge being put on by the Veterans Resource Committee of the Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central Florida. HEre’s the post with the black and white artwork – https://robsmithjr.com/blog/?p=7260
May 18th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Swampy’s Florida Cover!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.19, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Leave a Comment :art, book, Books, Caricatures, cartoon, Cartooning, child, childrens book illustration, childrens illustration, drawing, event, Florida, Florida art, Florida book, florida caricature, Florida cartoon, florida event, Florida History!, illustration, Jacob Smith, orlando entertainment, orlando event, orlando fun, Rob Smith Jr, sketch, sketching, swamp, Swampys Florida, Taylor Smith, tree more...May 25th, 2013 – Another Swampy’s Florida painting
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.25, 2013, under Illusration, Swampy's Florida
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..
April 26th, 2013 – Picking Oranges in Tangerine
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.26, 2013, under Various, What's New?
Leave a Comment :Florida, florida event, Jacob Smith, Rob Smith Jr, Taylor Smith, tree more...January 11th, 2013: Swampy Florida art in progress
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.11, 2013, under Cartooning, Illusration
Got the prep work done a couple days ago. Added watercolor while painting live during the Art Walk in Mt Dora at Julianne’s Coastal Cottage. I still need to work on details in the illustrations to get it to pop out more.
January 9th, 2013 – Florida Artwork in the Process!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.09, 2013, under Cartooning, Illusration, Swampy's Florida
Penciled this during a meeting tonight as I prep for a series of watercolor paintings I need to get done. It’s part of a Swampy’s Florida series that will soon be available to interior designers through a Miami company. There will be two series. One much like this of Florida locations and Florida critters. The other series is of beach scenes around the state.
This is just the pencils of the artwork. Next I prep the art to be watercolored. I’ll be painting the art this Friday during the Art Walk in Downtown Mt. Dora, Florida, at Julianne’s Coastal Cottage store. I’ll be doing it live. If you’re in the area, please come by and say ‘Hello!’.
I did the penciling during a meeting of the Springs Alliance which I’m involved with. Certainly an appropriate time to be working on artwork about the Rainbow River.
This is from a photo taken by a friend of a half fallen cypress tree on the Rainbow River in Marion County, Florida
January 12th, 2012 – Hiking and Sketching!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.14, 2012, under Florida Outdoors!, Sketchbook, What's New?
I joined the Thursday morning hiking group of the Florida Cracker Chapter of the Florida Trail Association for, what turned out to be, a strenuous 6 mile hike through San Felasco State Park. There are many more photos at the Swampy’s Florida site. You can see those by clicking here.
Along the way I got some sketchin’ done, too. Not as much as usual. Below are a couple of the slight scribblings I made along the way.
While hiking it’s always good to be prepared for emergencies by carrying a well stocked Pez container!
We found ourselves in an empty bed of a cypress swamp.
This should be under at least some water. Below is a lonely cypress knee.
October 2nd, 2011 – Peace River Park
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Oct.06, 2011, under Florida History!, Florida Outdoors!, What's New?
It was park day last Sunday, October 2nd. It was also the 121st birthday of Groucho Marx. A trip to Homeland Heritage Park and Mosaic Peace River Park was in store. Had a great time with Terisa Glover and Sparky as we traversed the area of Homeland, Florida. More photos of the trip will show up at Swampy’s Florida.
It was from the boardwalk at Peace River Park that I drew the sketch above. Below is video of part of the sketch.
Above is a photo of the natural wonder you can take in at Peace River Park.
Here’s a church, which is part of the Homeland Heritage Park.
I later ran over to the week old opened Marshall Hampton Reserve near Lake Hancock in Lakeland. There’s a photo of that soon to appear on the Swampy’s Florida site. My non-Swampy photos didn’t turn out well. Very wild there. Posted as open to foot and equine travelers and apparently to bikers, who nearly ran me down.
July 17th, 2010 – Parking at the Parks!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.20, 2010, under Florida Outdoors!, Sketchbook
I took advantage of free entry into Florida State Parks Saturday and got to eight parks… and sketched away. I also got a lot of Swampy photos some of which can be found over at Swampy’s Florida.
To the right is a sketch I drew at Crystal River Archaeological State Park.
Next are fish lingering over the spring boils at Rainbow Springs State Park.
The turtles are from Homosassa Springs State Park.