Recent Weather Journal Pages

I have been keeping a weather journal since last September. Here are a few semi-recent pages. Just click on the pictures to enlarge them.

I decided to draw all five days that we were up in Maine as a television weather report. Pretty scary weather girl, eh?

A REAL Chair!

I now have a sleek, comfortable, professional drawing chair thanks to an anonymous contributor. This was totally unexpected and made my day. I was told about it on Monday and today when I arrived home from work it was waiting in my porch for me. I was using a hard, uncomfortable short back stool that we had picked up at IKEA.

This is the photo of the new chair from the catalogue it was ordered from.

This is it after I assembled it. It only took about 10 minutes to put it together.

Thank you very much Mr. Anonymous! Now I no longer have to be crippled after an hour at the drawing table.

If you want one for yourself I would highly recommend ordering it from here.

http://www.artstuff.net/monarch_high_back_chairs.htm

Still Pressed For Time

I'm still very busy with work and home so I haven't had much drawing time. These are a few I have managed to eek out.

I have started to read this book.

A Sad Day At David Wasting Paper

Jewel

1995-2009

Jewel's six month fight with lymphoma ended last night. She was a great kitty and she will be greatly missed!

Where The Hell Have I Been?

Wow, where has the time gone? I can't remember doing much of anything, yet almost two months have gone by.

Last week I was at a store with my wife and we came across this book.

It is kind of geared to children but I've had a lot of fun doodling around with it. I sure wish I had it when I was a kid. Below are a few of them I tried.

The Cat Whisperer

The Resophonics

Many of you know that I have been playing the guitar since I was 10. I think that if you play an instrument you have a greater appreciation of more diverse music genres. I enjoy rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, jazz and country (from the 50’s and 60’s, not the new crap they try to tell you is country). One band that I have seen at least 4 times is The Resophonics. They are a bluegrass/folk band that really rocks. They have so much energy on the stage and they always have one or two hilarious stories to tell. The first time I saw them only three members of the band performed, Paul Kochanski on bass, Sean Staples on guitar and Eric Royer on banjo. I drew caricatures of them of them minus Sean’s beard, which he no longer has. You can check out there site here http://www.resophonics.com/, although the link to purchase their CD’s no longer works.

Paul Kochanski

Sean Staples

Eric Royer

Put On Your PJ's and Pour a Bowl of Captain Crunch

Flash back to 1969 any Saturday morning. A small boy of 7 years wearing cowboy pajamas settles in front of the TV with a heaping bowl of Captain Crunch cereal. He is glued to the television for hours watching cartoons. This leads to a lifetime love of all things cartoons. Flash forward to May 26, 2009. A not so small man of 46 wearing jeans, t-shirt and swilling from a heaping glass of Guinness is glued to the TV watching cartoons. Coming in exactly two weeks is the DVD release of Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Volume 1. If you are my age this is a no-brainer purchase.

Below are pictures from all the cartoons that will be on this awesome DVD. See how many you remember.

Ricochet Rabbit
Punkin Puss
Magilla Gorilla
The Impossibles
The Jetsons
Frankenstein Jr.
The Herculoids
Dino Boy
Space Ghost
Marine Boy (the only one I don't remember)

The Flintstones

Augie Dogie
Snooper and Blabber
Quick Draw McGraw & Baba Looey
The Porky Pig Show
Winsome Witch
Squiddley Diddly
Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey
Breezly and Sneezly
Peter Potamus and So-So
Hillbilly Bears
Precious Pupp
Atom Ant
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