Some new color sketches

Boobs!

Those crazy kids just LOVE to draw!

"Tattoo", sort of....

While on my recent trip to SF, I did these color roughs for Illustration Friday (during the five and a half hours of time that it takes to get there). Usually it is time lost that you never get back, but I try to make the most of it. It usually makes the time fly....so to speak.

I have no time to finish this one by Friday, so.............I think I am going to take my time with it and do a finished piece. The idea is an old proper looking woman sitting next to this really big, nasty looking guy, both waiting to get tattooed. I just loved that silly expression on her face. I will get to soon and post it right here for your amusement (hopefully!).

Chubby Little Lady

This lady is from a previous post. I was looking at it and decided to add some color. You can see the original sketch in the December archive.

Hope you like it.

"TEA!"

For illustration Friday.

These are two very dumb snowmen.

"Celebrate"

In 2001 I was commissioned by the United States Postal Service and The Walt Disney Company to create a series of stamps. This was a project that was avoided by Disney for a long time and there was great pressure to make the images significant for both Disney and the USPS.

Originally the series was supposed to consist of four images only. There was a change in plans while I was finishing the first of the stamps that were designed and the set was expanded to twelve. Here is the second set which were released last year with the theme " Celebrate". I never got around to posting them on my website as I did the first set....sooooo here they are, FINALLY!

These are the images without being cropped, with no price. The next set of images will be released in April and the theme is "Romance". It has truly been an honor to have my work on postage stamps- especially when I get them in the mail!

BTW- These were done in acrylic on masonite

I feel a "SONG" coming on!

For Illustration Friday.....


Giving us her best "Garland-esque" pose.

Faculty Meetings

Faculty meetings are moments pregnant with possibilities. I do hope my colleagues are not insulted. These are only a few I have done so there are more to come. This is a posting that I would welcome opinions from my students! I hope they enjoy them especially!

Glamour

........for Illustration Friday

In honor of the current awards season. It was done quickly, but it was my first thought.

James Lipton

I had the good fortune (depending on how you look at it) of being able to attend a taping of "Inside the Actors Studio'' Hosted by the wonderfully, overly melodramatic James Lipton. These tapings last about three hours long and they edit them down to an hour. Quite honestly It was fun but I felt the need to keep myself amused during some of it. It was light enough in the theater so I was able to draw with no problem. I did laugh to myself when he reprimanded the audience during the break for coughing too much. He has control issues I think. Anyway, I hope you like them.

And remember...." You're a Delight."

More on the Metro North

This guy was great. My friend Esther asked if it was Carl Sagan.

Some fiddling around.

Here is a little watercolor I did on Fabriano paper. I bought the smallest cards they had to do little exercises for myself. The quality of the paper is wonderful and they warp only slightly.

This is just random and there is no planning involved. I have no idea what I am going to paint by the time I start. I love drawing the uglier, meaner looking characters the most I must say. Even when I was at Disney I always enjoyed drawing the Villains most.

Her expression is similar to a previous woman I posted. I must like that sly look.

Another Face Only a Mother Could Love!

This was not a happy Woman!

Just doodlin'

A Face Only.....

...a Mother could love!

Reading

The Semester is Over!

...but I have a few more student drawings to show!

Woman on Metro-North Train pt. 2

This is very close to how I remember her.

Sleeping Beauties on Metro North

Taking the train to NYC is much more fun than I thought it was going to be. I do a lot of drawing on the train and I love when people wake to see me staring at them, they get totally freaked out. Here area a few examples.