Gallery Update: Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary…and Squids…
Memorial Day turned out to be very busy for me and my family, so this site update is a day late. First, I have to wish my memere a very happy 94th birthday! I miss you, and here's to 94 more! Secondly, an equally Happy First Anniversary to my cousin and his lovely wife. Sometime in 2013, they approached me and asked if I'd be willing to help them design their wedding invitations. Family is my top priority, so of course I said "yes". The water has big significance in their individual and shared lives, so they really wanted a
Gallery Update: Random Doodleage…and another reveal…
Still not ready for the PMD themed post (I won't say retrospective again...wait...), still too much editing and still hoping to get a few pictures or scans of some PMD cards I've sent out over the years. In the meantime I'm edging closer to getting my shirt designs uploaded, which is inching me closer to opening the "shop". I'm also designing some shirts for my oldest son's Boy Scout troop and trying to source a local print shop to handle the job. Anywhat, I thought I'd add some more random art to the gallery. The Vampire Banana featured above was
Gallery Update: Dragon Rider
I was thinking about doing that PMD retrospectivey thingy post, but as I was combing through old sketchbooks and accumulating a ton of photos that I need to edit before posting, I realized I don't have copies of some of the cards (and possibly envelopes) I've made over the years. I know I don't have an image of the card I made for my best friend Jorj when he got married several years ago. I have a sketch of a birthday card but no idea who it was for and I have no copy of the finished card. So, if
Gallery Update: One Last Mother’s Day Card…and something special…
Alright, before we get too much further out from Mother's Day 2015, I wanted to post up the card I made for my sister-in-law and my brother, who are expecting their first child soon. They'll make great parents, with or without any assistance or advice from Plunger Monkey. Doing custom, personalized, hand drawn cards is usually my way of saying how important people are to me, or how happy I am for something that's going on in their lives. I'm not sure if everyone notices, but the box on the front of the card appears to say "baby supplies", but
Gallery Update: Willy McEyeballs
So tonight was our oldest son's 6th grade band concert. I tend to get antsy at these because there's so many people. I've been thinking lately that I need to do more sketch book sketching anyway, so I grabbed a fresh moleskin sketch book and mechanical pencil to give me something to do while listening to the band and to take my mind off the throngs of people. I used to carry a moleskin all the time, but I found it cumbersome. I need more pockets. I was excited to be able to draw on my phone, but I
Gallery Update: Mother’s Day Mega Update
Happy belated Mother's Day! I'm either one or two days late, depending on how much longer this monster site update actually takes. We traveled to see family for the actual holiday, and the inescapable mundanities of life kept me from working in the studio, and getting to this update, until everyone else was in bed for the night. I also lost a chunk of the day to actually tracking down all the art I needed to photograph for this post. Speaking of this post...on to the actual post! (WARNING: this is going to be a longish one with lots of
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