mother nature

Ask the goat?

After looking at the map and getting nowhere the commander asks the obivous Maybe the goat knows where we are?

At the End of my Rope

Art on a shoestring budget! Yes, that rope is a shoestring and the cliff is a but of a rock wall at a gas station near my home. Here is a sneak preview of something I am working up, a direction for the art blog... "The Vagabonds" are my alternate history World War 2 group fighting in the deserts of North Africa against the forces of Rommel. "Naturally the plane drops the two crates of supplies for us right on target... just off the cliff."

Hogwarts Pooh Style

I got to thinking about Harry Potter and that Hogwarts hat that sorts the kids into different houses... Pooh would be a Slytherian for sure, just think about his obsessive greed for more and more honey.

This was a quick snap in low light with my camera phone... sorry for the low quality. It was a mail art post card sent off to a special someone.

May your Sharpies always have ink and stay sharp!- Alan

Crest Coloring Job

Here is a work in progress... folks gave me an old xeroxed copy of their family crest that was so seriously faided he had to try to remember what colors he thought they had been. So my work here was mostly doing enhansement and coloring.

the project is going to become am image on a tote bag for their upcoming family reunion.

May your sharpies always have ink and stay sharp!- Alan

Company Outing Artwork

My last work was signs for a company outing around a carnival theme. This one I enjoyed and was a quickie made with what ever art supplies I could find in the office.

May your sharpies stay sharp and always have ink!- Alan

Tweety Angel and Life's Goals

planning on doing a bike marathon in honor of my passed mother and this will be the sign on the back of my bicycle. My mother was an artist and blessed me with the joy of art. She was also a huge tweety fan... thus the angel.

The funds go to various animal projects... if you care to donate the link is:
http://www.zoonewengland.org/foolsfitness

I got to be a guest teaching a local Girl Scout troop (the young group… “Daisies” I think) some cartooning. I never really knew this was one of my life’s goals until I did it. I think it stems from two parts.

1) it is uber cool to be sincerely appreciated by a kindergardener.
2) To pass on a bit of some of the joy I have for cartooning to kids… it’s not something I thought was going to be so moving. Maybe it’s like I’ve gone from student to master in a way finally or something? It was almost the feeling of selling my art to someone I really respected for the first time. Maybe it just brought back so many memories of how much pure joy art has been for me since I was 6 or 10 too.

My your sharpies always have ink and stay sharp!- Alan