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Announcing Swampy’s Florida Kickstarter program!

by on May.27, 2014, under Cartooning, Florida History!, Florida Outdoors!, Swampy's Florida

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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!

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May 26th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Critters on the Run!

by on May.26, 2014, under Cartooning, Florida Outdoors!

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Today penciled and inked this illustration for a five mile run – for people – coming up this fall in Silver Springs State Park in Florida.

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May 15th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: A Fishing Veteran!

by on May.15, 2014, under Cartooning

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This is the inked version of art I did for an upcoming fishing event in Melbourne, Florida. It’s to salute American military veterans and help some get out and fish.

Click here to learn more and maybe you can join in and help!

My next step is to digitally color the artwork.

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January 9th, 2014 – Lots of work to do Today!

by on Feb.09, 2014, under Caricatures, Cartooning, Illusration

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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.

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February 5th, 2014 – What I’m drawing: My Springs Symposium Watercolor Painting #1

by on Feb.05, 2014, under Caricatures, Illusration

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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.

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January 29th, 2014 – Springing to Illustrate Speakers about of Florida Springs

by on Jan.30, 2014, under Caricatures, Illusration, Swampy's Florida

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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.

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January 7th, 2013 – #DailyInks #7 – Turtle

by on Jan.07, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

Rob Smith Jr - Turtle Signing - Daily inks 7

Rob Smith Jr – Turtle Signing – Daily inks 7

As i signed a couple sets of Swampy’s Florida books for the Silver River Museum to sell, I added a critter or two along the way. You can get your copies by going by or contacting the Silver River Museum. Click here to learn more. Here’s a turtle resting along the waters of the Silver River.

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August 9th, 2013 – Silver Springs update meeting sketchbook entry

by on Aug.09, 2013, under Sketchbook

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I attended a Silver Springs park update on Wednesday and learned more about the merging of the iconic Florida attraction, Silver Springs, into the state park system. The grand reopening will be October 1st and the park’s whole name will be Silver River State Park. The cost to get into the two merged sites: $8. Wild Waters will still be a separate area from the overall park. Drainage is changing significantly and that might be most noticeable in the massive changes in the parking lot. By the way, parking returns to the early days of Silver Springs by being free.

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August 8th, 2013: New Rainbow Springs cartoon artwork by me!

by on Aug.08, 2013, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida

Swampy's Florida cartoon artwork by Rob Smith, Jr.

Swampy’s Florida cartoon artwork by Rob Smith, Jr.

This is cartoon artwork for the upcoming ‘Swampy’s Florida: Dunnellon’ coming out next month. Watch for more coming in the next few weeks!

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May 29th, 2013 – Newest Swampy’s Florida Print!

by on May.29, 2013, under Swampy's Florida

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Finished this back on Friday during the Florida Parent Educators Association conference. It’ll be available during an auction to raise money for the American crocodile on June 29th at Reptile World Serpentarium near St. Cloud, Florida. This painting will also be available as a print soom. The setting is Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge south of Miami.

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