A year ago I penciled these pages for a planned Swampy’s Florida book to be called ‘Swampy’s Florida Halloween Party’.
Little did I know that 4 days later I’d break my drawing right wrist and arm. I was out of commission through September and had to focus on non-Swampy projects to pay the bills. Projects that took 10 times longer due to the lengthy healing of my wrist and arm. I really wasn’t back to drawing closer than usual until about February.

There’s been a mighty delay, but I plan to jump back into the Halloween project in a couple weeks.
Look for updates here.

In the meantime, I’m working hard to get ‘River of Life’ #2 done.
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Guardian Angel Getten Volume 1 by Minene Sakurano
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Standard, if not stereo-typical, manga story. Boy, girl, 14-year-olds, conflict, magic.
This one very poorly illustrated and poor layouts.
Clearly sailor Moon was an influence. Those involved shoulg’ve studied the story telling.

Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book. 4 out of ten points.

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Drew this live as entertainment to help raise funds during an event for a group I’m with, Champions for Champions.
This is on 19″ x 20″ Canson board.

Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

First, this is not a happy volume. du Maurier builds up, I believe, the largest body county of any of her books. Mostly of the of the family that is the focus of the book. Not an uplifting book.

This is another of du Maurier’s sprawling novels following a family over a century plus. The characters are very well developed. There are a lot of characters and du Maurier does it again creating and then consistently using those characters as her story goes along.

Her writing of the mining business and those that work those mines is very impressive. Especially those that run the mines and the interaction with the business.

I love du Maurier’s writing ability and this book is worth that reading trek.

Bottom line: I recommend this book. 8 out of ten points.

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A slew of projects I penciled and inked, this day, back in 2010.
Today, I can’t remember what most of these were for. A couple were for my Swampy’s Florida site.
I can tell each is drawn on 11″x 14″ Bristol cardstock. The paper used to be easy to acquire back then, Today, it’s very, very difficult for a singular artist to get reams of paper like that as I once did.
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6 years ago today I was digitally coloring the illustrations I did for a series of books for children starring this little dog.

Here’s a watercolor painting I did in 2015 with the person who purchased it.

The painting was done on 17″ x 20″ Arches watercolor board.
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