Running on Plenty

As long as I'll be gone for a week and I know that, daily, I have 5,985,236 viewers, I am posting an extra one for good measure. This one is due to the fact that by the time you or your 5,985,235 friends read this, I will be running along miles and miles of sandy beaches... (well, maybe only one of those 'miles', as I hear it's tough to run on sand)

FuzzyWazzup

I am soon to leave the now chilly Chicago for the ever-warm San Diego for a bit of a respite from the Mid-west. In honor of this occasion I have for you a picture of Fuzzy Wuzzy and a poem.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,

Fuzzy Wuzzy got a condo in the Florida Keys

Due to inclement weather up north.

A poet, indeed. Is rhyming excessively necessary?

N*ice Cream

Yesterday was a scorcher. My friend H*lly* came by and we headed off to find novelty ice cream treats to cool our sweaty brows (sweaty because we stepped outside our nicely air conditioned offices). We succeeded a short time later. I did not find the Mickey Mouse bar I had hoped to find, though I had an ice cream sammich and it's not a bad second choice.

Alas, I had to color something involving a Micky Mouse bar in it, with an ice cream sammich to boot.

*H*lly's name has been slightly changed to protect her identity

Tire-d Cartoon

Some days my brain feels like it let out all the fun the day before and it is a large-ish space waiting to be filled again. It's not as depressing as it sounds- it means I need to go for a nice walk or jog and take in some of the world around me.

Today my brain is in that state. Bear with me. Bear with a cartoon containing a bear, on a tire, making friends and right quick.

Medium- no different, faithful ole crayola colored pencils and ink

To all the grills I've loved before

My brain is frazzled today. It's a beautiful day out, once again, and yet I am inside. Ah well, summery pictures are in order. Here is a sketch I did last year when I felt it a good and right thing that I draw summery pictures.

Medium: pencils of varying hardness

Slowly making progress

I have, on occasion, made cartoons to send to friends via emails. I was looking at all the pictures I have stored on my computer in the hopes of finding some decent samples to send to a cafe ownder when I ran across one of my favorite cartoons. It was inspired by some really nasty pictures of sloths I found online - a creature that really ought to be cute and cuddly given the fact that it has fur and hangs from trees and eats leaves- but is pretty gross due to ... slowness? uncleanliness? I don't know. Sloths are an enigma to me. As are fast food joints- the two together would have to make a decent 'toon.

Reel Family Getaway...

I've been hand selected by someone to create t-shirts for a family gathering later this summer. While this is an honor in some cultures and in some venues- I was more or less asked by my own dad if I could whip up something to slap on our family vacation t-shirts. Not as glamorous, but who am I to complain?

I thought about word plays, etc, and came up with "a reel family getaway"- and thought of that picture that Shel Silverstein for 'Crowded Tub'. A mess of limbs- but up-north style with some fishing poles sticking out the sides!

Here 'tis, enjoy. Medium- Bic pens, brushed up on Photoshop.