Geekified Plain Wooden Pencil Boxes

I signed up for a six week cartooning class at one of our local art associations. I start on the 27th of this month and I really can't wait. So...since I am such a Geek, I decided to customize a couple of wooden pencil boxes to hold my pens and brushes for the class. The materials I used were the boxes I purchased at A.C. Moore for a buck a piece, a couple of older comics from the dollar rack and some clear decoupage with throw-away foam brush. I just started tearing up interesting pictures from the comics and put about 5-6 coats of the goop on them, waiting 15-20 minutes between coats.

Here are the before pictures;

These are during;

...and these are the completed boxes.

The bottoms.


The ends.

The sides.

...and filled with cartooning supplies.

Frankenstein Jr.

When I was a kid I loved the cartoon Frankenstein Jr. I had the coloring book and the Big Little book of the show. I received this bank for Christmas which is totally awesome!

This is a drawing from the model sheet that they used as a guide for the animators.

Here is my rendition from my journal pages.

Recent Photos Of My "Work" Area

These are the most recent photos of my "work" area. The bookcase is new, so I finally have the piles of books that were strewn all over the house in one place.

I hope that everyone out there has a wonderful Christmas!

Icy Morning

More Journal Pages

We received a foot of snow from Friday afternoon through Saturday night. It still hasn't stopped snowing and we have received and additional couple of inches. It will make for an interesting Football game today between the Pats and the Cardinals at Foxboro.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

I haven't had much time to draw except in my journal, so here is one I did just around this time last year. It was done with a Faber Castell Pitt pen and my cheap Winsor Newton watercolors. It is framed and hangs behind my drawing table.

More Schulz Journal Pages

A couple more of recent journal pages.

Pig-Pen's Snowman

I have always been a Peanuts fan. Yesterday's snow inspired me to try my hand at one of my favorite Schulz characters, Pig-Pen.

Christmas Lights Journal Page

I've been keeping a weather/sketching journal for the last couple of months. It forces me to draw everyday even if it is only the sun and clouds. This is the entry from yesterday. It was fun putting up the lights for Patti's step mom, but boy there were a lot of lights. I felt like Clark Griswold from "Christmas Vacation."

Oldie But Goodie

A couple of years ago we found this stray kitten under my truck in the driveway. Since we already had two cats I was reluctant to bring it in. My wife won out and we adopted it. Because she had been living outside and eating God knows what for so long she had some...um...intestinal troubles. By that I mean (sorry to be so frank) the worst gas I have ever encountered in my entire life. Not only was it frequent, it was also well beyond foul smelling. Luckily she is now healthy as a horse and no longer has any of her earlier tummy troubles.

We adopted her (and named her Pieces, since her mother's name was Reese's) in August and my wife's birthday is September 2nd, so this is the birthday card I came up with that year. You'll note that one of the cats (Badger) isn't quite as bright as the other (Jewel) so when he has the light bulb idea symbol over his head it is only 65 watts. If you right click and "Open Link in New Window" it will be easier to see.