Tag: Florida art
June 22nd, 2015 – Drawing and Inking!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.22, 2015, under Cartooning
April 19th, 2015 – My Swampy’s Florida at Dunnellon’s Boomtown Days event!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.19, 2015, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
With my Swampy’s Florida at Dunnellon’s Boomtown yesterday. With me is City Commissioner Penny Fleeger, Jeff Smith and Tessa Noell helping out. Big crowds and lot’s of folks wanting to know about our great state of Florida!
March 27th, 2015 – My New Swampy’s Florida Book – Dunnellon!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.27, 2015, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Out here in Palm Bay picking up the brand new Dunnellon book!
March 7th, 2015 – Caricatures in St. Augustine!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.07, 2015, under Caricatures
Leave a Comment :art, caricature, draw, drawing, Florida, Florida art, florida caricature, Florida cartoon, florida event, illustration, Jacob Smith, Rob Smith Jr, sketch, sketching, st augustine caricature', St Augustine cartoon, St Augustine cartoon portraits, Taylor Smith more...February 14th, 2015 – Valentine’s Day Handrawn cards at Silver Springs State PArk
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.14, 2015, under Cartooning, Florida Attractions
I spent the day at Silver Springs State Park hand drawing and painting Valentine’s cards for a special price. While there I also promoted our Silver Springs Festival and Marion County Museum of History and Archaeology. I, as usual, fumbled trying to sell cards and went about cheerleading what I was promoting. Finally, folks got wise they were missing out on a great deal involving Valentine’s Day cards and I was put to the test to knock out many as the day closed. Notice it is nearly dark in one photo.
February 5th, 2015 – Another of my Romer, the Recycling Squirrel #cartoons !
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.05, 2015, under Cartooning
Here’s another of the Romer, the Recycling Squirrel series from the City of Orlando’s City Hallways. This one includes folks here on Facebook. Like Robert Spindler, Pamela Swinehart Duffy and Ed Richter. Don’t know if Barbara is here on Facebook or not. This was the graphics section of the City of Orlando in the latter days I was there.
This is #2 of 3 of day #4 of #5 of a Facebook Art Challenge.
February 5th, 2015 – More of my Romer, the Recycling Squirrel #cartoon!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.05, 2015, under Cartooning
More Romer, the Recycling Squirrel I scrawled out for our City Hallways more than 20 years ago while I was with the City of Orlando. This one is a favorite of mine. John Everhart was a co-worker who had one heck of a sense of humor. That last panel is an exact pose you might find him in if you came through the engineering department.
The cartoon involved a bit of editorial that employees were told one day that we no longer had a place to park and had to park blocks away and walk to City Hall. I didn’t mind the walk. It’s that the City was slowly giving away all the land around the building to business investors. I remember so well after the old City Hall was visually imploded at the beginning of the film Lethal Weapon 3, Lew Oliver arranged the new City Hall to have property around the building that might be built and then leased to help City taxpayers. Within ten years Lew was gone and the opposite happened.
This is Day 4 of a 5 day challenge that I got flipped in my head. That and I’ve been busy. This is #1 0f 3 for the day. Heck, I almost need a legal description to work this thing out!
I’m apparently supposed to ask another artist to post 3 bits of artwork for 5 days and also ask another artist to post work. OK, AE Sabo – You’ll likely follow the rules better than I. 😀
January 29th, 2014 – More of my City Hall artwork: A Puppet Fairy Tale
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.29, 2015, under Cartooning
Here’s something else I did while at the City of Orlando, though i did a bunch of this with my own time. It was for the puppet theater the City used to have at the City Community Centers.
Each of the characters shown was also a puppet. I remember going out to get photos for this.
This for Facebook Art Challenge #3 of 3. Pam Treadwell
January 27th, 2015 – I’m Chug-a-lugging Artwork Again!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.28, 2015, under Cartooning
My pal Pam Pam Treadwell wants me to post 3 pictures here I drew. Well, I’ve been hunkered down again in the past few hours reworking a Swampy project. Got 18 pages penciled and inked. So, here’s them and three close ups.
January 24th, 2015 – More Hand Painted Valentine’s Day Cards!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.24, 2015, under Cartooning
Here’s one of the Valentine’s Day cards I produced today. This is for her skin diving husband who looks for sea life of the octopus variety when he isn’t otherwise collecting guns. Nothing worse to encounter undersea than a well armed octopus. Should have had him say, “You kids keep off my lawn!”
January 22nd, 2015 – Inking a Stack of Work!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.22, 2015, under Cartooning
I spent a few hours this evening inking a stack of pages involving a number of projects. I’m back in a local coffee shop. Second time this week with major accomplishments as a result. Been reading books of favorite writers, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley & others of the Round Table and their need for a place to hole away and get work done. Realized I need to do the same again.
It’s been exactly a year since I stopped going to my old coffee shop haunt due to political reasons. Since then have bounced around at chain spots and other places. Seems I have found a new spot- or as pals Craig Zablo & John Beatty call my “office” – to hunker down and really get work done