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My Projects in Progress: Bunnies and Manatees!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.26, 2018, under Cartooning, Florida History!, Florida Outdoors!

A page from the SpringsFest coloring storybook that will be available free at the Florida SpringsFest March 3-4, 2018 at Silver Springs State Park. Come by the SpirngsFest booth and i’ll draw a personalized drawing for you in the book.

Better yet, meet and greet the great Ricou Browning! Ricou was the Creature from the Black Lagoon, AKA the Gill-Man. He’s not making many public appearances anymore and here is a terrific legend of #Florida film!

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Inktober #9 – I’m Drawing Osprey in Downtown Orlando 1867!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Oct.09, 2017, under Cartooning

#Inktober #8 –

Mike Clark requested:

“Osprey pulling a bass out of Lake Ivanhoe with a downtown Orlando backdrop”

Above Officer Coopersmith apprehends the vile bank robber, Dooley Monahan, out of Lake Ivanhoe a mile north of Downtown Orlando.

It’s little known that, Orlando’s greatest police chief, Robert Chewning in 1967 secretly assembled a wildlife arm of the police force. More and more critters across Florida were breaking laws of all sizes. Something had to be done. Upon becoming Chief, Chewning recruited his secret critter task force to rid the streets of the animal crime wave. During his tenure crimes by wildlife dropped 97%!

This was such a secret group that, I don’t believe, even Grace Ann Wendorff Chewning knew about it! And she knows everything! 🙂

The 1967 view is from the more southernly shore of Lake Ivanhoe just before the, then, new Interstate 4, looking easterly with the OUC building in the background. The Armory is in the background on the right hand side.

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My new mermaid & manatee painting! – April 15th, 2017

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.15, 2017, under Illusration

This is one piece i finished last night of a mermaid and her manatee pal.

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My newest #Florida painting – ‘Playing along the Oklawaha at Fort McCoy’ – April 1st, 2016

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.01, 2016, under Florida Outdoors!, Illusration

Here’s my newest painting. The setting is the Oklawaha River from a photograph I took.

Eventually to be available as a print.

Here’s where some prints are available to purchase now:

http://store.theknowledgeexchange.com/collections/swampys-prints

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Ocklawaha Painting in Process! – March 22nd, 2016

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.22, 2016, under Illusration

Thought I would post an update to the painting I’m working on. Computer still extremely clunky. Freezing about every half hour. A bit hard right now to post as I usually do.

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I Gave a Talk of #Florida water Monday night & got Eggs! – March 8th, 2016

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.08, 2016, under What's New?

Spoke to a group about water issues in Florida last night and was awarded for it by being given a carton of fresh chicken eggs from the Wilson family! Thank you, Donna Dollar Wilson, Ed Wilson and your chickens!

My talk was about where our water in #Florida comes from, what endangers it, sinkholes, the humongous cost to taxpayers to fix damage done by others and the problem of massive “infrastructure” construction. The latter being a part of the former.

I invited them (Including being sure each had a brochure) and all of you to come to our Florida SpringsFest to learn more about our state’s water and have fun doing it! I’ll be there at Florida’s Silver Springs State Park March 19th and 20th with my Swampy’s Florida! Hope to see you all there!

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August 1st, 2015 – My newest painting – Watercolor prep! #2 of 5

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.01, 2015, under Illusration, What's New?

All prepped for watercolor! Time to add paint!

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July 23rd, 2015 – My watercolor painting of Whitey Markle for the Silver Springs Alliance!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.23, 2015, under Caricatures, Cartooning, Florida Outdoors!

Meant to post these earlier! This one of 5 paintings I did for the speakers at an event our group, Silver Springs Alliance, had back in May. As each speaker spoke I illustrated what they were speaking about. LAter I added watercolor.

Here’s the one for, Florida folk singer/Sierra Club leader/all around good guy, Whitey Markle. He covered a great deal of territory and it was fun for me, knowing the area so well, to poke further fun at it all in the artwork. Each painting is given to the speakers as a “Thank you!” for coming out and helping more Florida citizens learn more about our water problems in our great state.

(Been meaning to post more, but have been on the road again! Lots going on the next few days. I should be posting a lot more.)

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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.

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January 6th, 2015 – Frogs in air-space!

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.06, 2015, under Illusration

Here’s my latest watercolor painting of frogs and Florida history. This is a frog in the place of aviator Tony Jannus, who is regarded as the pilot of the first scheduled airline in the world. This occurred over Tampa Bay in 1914. The passenger was a former St Petersburg mayor who won an auction to be the first passenger for $400.

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October 8th, 2014 – Happy World Octopus Day! #Inktober

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Oct.08, 2014, under Cartooning

Here’s the inked art for #Inktober today!

Here’s part of the Swampy’s Florida post:
Swampy says Happy World Octopus Day!
More about the legend of the St Augustine Monster: http://swampysflorida.com/?p=11318

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