Owner: josh pincus is crying URL:http://blog.marshotelonline.com Join Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:56:28 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: My blog contains all of my drawings that I submit to various illustration blogs and a few that I do on my own. Along with my illustrations, i write about my skewed view of the world around me. Site statistics:Click here
from my sketchbook: susan cabot 2008-03-06 22:45:44 Born Harriet Shapiro on July 9, 1927 in Boston, Susan Cabot grew up shuffled between 8 foster homes. She developed an interest in acting and singing – performing evenings at Manhattan’s Village Barn. A film career seemed destined when the nightclub singer appeared in the 1947 film Kiss of Death with Colleen Gray and Victor [...] Read more:sketchbook
Monday Artday: change 2008-03-04 06:03:26 The Monday
Artday challenge this week is “change”.
“Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.”
This quote has been listed in some sources as an authentic Gypsy or Eastern European folk saying. Screenwriter Curt Siodmak admits [...]
IF: leap 2008-03-02 19:05:59 The challenge at illustrationfriday.com this week is “leap”.
faster than a speeding bullet
more powerful than a locomotive
and able to blah blah blah…
SFG: mechanical 2008-03-02 13:00:00 The weekly challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “mechanical
”.
It’s always tough finding a spot at the bar at the Piston My Brake Shoes Pub.
from my sketchbook: brimful of Asha 2008-03-01 16:02:34 Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer, best known as a Bollywood playback singer. A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs on soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras.
Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done [...] Read more:sketchbook
Monday Artday: underground 2008-02-28 22:51:17 The challenge this week at Monday
Artday is “underground”.
Vance Palmer was born September 16, 1893. In the early twentieth century, hundreds of boys like Vance worked as “door boys” or “nippers” in coal mines. Door boys were never over fourteen years of age and sometimes as young as ten. The work of the door boy [...]
IF: multiple 2008-02-24 19:02:07 The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “multiple”.
One of the most famous and interesting medical anomalies is the world’s only conjoined triplets, Chang and Eng and Archie Bunker. Conjoined twins are a rare phenomenon. It is estimated to occur from 1 in 50,000 births to 1 in 200,000 births. However, there is only one case of [...]
SFG: bad idea 2008-02-23 13:18:52 The sugarfrostedgoodness.com weekly challenge is “bad idea”.
Not a good idea!
Monday Artday: getting ready 2008-02-20 22:13:14 The challenge this week on Monday
Artday is “getting ready
”.
…for Opening Day!
I have mentioned before. I love baseball. I love watching baseball. I love going to baseball games. There are some things I don’t like about baseball (namely Brett Myers), but overall, I love it.
I have been a Phillies season ticket holder since 1996. That [...]
IF: theory 2008-02-17 17:24:34 The illustrationfriday.com word this week is another abstract one. The word is “theory”.
“Anne Elk’s Theory on Brontosauruses” is a sketch from an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
This skit features Graham Chapman as a television interviewer and John Cleese in preposterous drag as the palaeontologist, Anne Elk.
The plot of the skit is that the interviewee, [...]
Monday Artday: wee folk 2008-03-11 21:52:34 Here is a direct quote from Monday
Artday introducing the weekly challenge:
“THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE
Wee Folk - use any medium to illustrate the theme. Wee Folk are leprechauns, faeries, sprites, brownies, etc.”
maybe I misunderstood…
IF: garden 2008-03-09 12:28:26 This week’s challenge word on illustrationfriday.com is “garden”.
In the Garden of Eden (or as Iron Butterfly said “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”) story from Genesis, God molds Adam from the dust of the Earth, then forms Eve from Adam’s “side”, and places them both in the garden, eastward in Eden. “Male and female he created them; and blessed them, and [...]
SFG: wicked 2008-03-09 12:13:45 The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com is “wicked”.
“Wicked” Wilson Pickett was born March 18, 1941 in Prattville, Alabama, and grew up singing in Baptist church choirs. He was the youngest of 11 children. He made reference to his mother as “the baddest woman in my book.” He said, “I get scared of her now. She used [...]
SFG: innocent 2008-03-14 22:45:52 The sugarfrostedgoodness.com challenge word this week is “innocent”.
On August 29, 1484, Pope Innocent VIII succeeded Pope Sixtus IV (for whom the Sistine Chapel was named). And it was all downhill from there.
After his coronation, he went back all his promises and left his signatures unhonored, slyly revelling in his immunity. He abandoned the decorum of [...]
from my sketchbook: edward hickman & marian parker 2008-03-12 22:36:52 “She left her home one morning/For her school not far away./And no one dreamed that danger/Was lurking near that day”
On December 15, 1927, Marion Parker, the 12-year-old daughter of Perry Parker, a prominent banker in Los Angeles, was abducted from her school. Nineteen-year-old Edward Hickman showed up at the school Marian attended with her twin [...] Read more:sketchbook
IF: heavy 2008-03-15 21:46:34 The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “heavy”.
“There’s that word again — ‘heavy’. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth’s gravitational pull?”
Monday Artday: wonder woman 2008-03-17 22:43:54 The Monday
Artday challenge this week is “illustrate the comic book hero, Wonder Woman, in your style.”
What if, in 1941, Diana Prince didn’t go to the United States when she left Paradise Island?
What if she ended up in a Muslim country? Read more:wonder
, woman
Monday Artday: wonder woman 2 2008-03-20 22:35:17 The Monday
Artday challenge this week is “illustrate the comic book hero, Wonder Woman, in your style.”
This is the second of two illustrations for this challenge.
“hmmmm, I guess I’ll wear the Wonder Woman costume…..again.” Read more:wonder
, woman
IF: pet peeves 2008-03-23 15:36:17 I suppose it’s only fitting that, on the one year anniversary of the josh pincus is crying blog, I once again misunderstood the topic. I misread illustrationfriday.com challenge for this week.
It’s “pet peeves”.
Here’s a couple of guys waiting in a veterinarian’s office.
Monday Artday: thirst 2008-03-25 22:38:03 The Monday
Artday challenge this week is “thirst
”.
I love old jokes and this week’s challenge word made me think of a great old joke.
A guy is crawling through the desert, crying for water. “Water! Water!” he cries. He sees a figure ahead in the desert and he crawls towards it. It’s a man.
“Water! Please! I [...]
from my sketchbook: albert dekker 2008-03-23 22:53:05 Born Albert Van Ecke in Brooklyn, New York, Albert Dekker made his professional acting debut with a Cincinnati stock company in 1927. Within a few months, Dekker was featured on Broadway.
Dekker moved to Hollywood in 1937, and made his first film, The Great Garrick. He returned to the stage and replaced Lee J. Cobb as [...] Read more:sketchbook
from my sketchbook: roscoe arbuckle 2008-03-26 22:28:55 Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle appeared in several Keystone Kops shorts in 1913. In 1914 Paramount Pictures offered the then-unheard Arbuckle $1,000 a day, 25% of all profits and complete artistic control of movies he made for them. The movies were so lucrative and popular that in 1918 they offered Arbuckle a 3-year, $3 million contract. In [...] Read more:sketchbook
SFG: ape 2008-03-30 11:12:59 The challenge on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “ape”.
In 1841, Edgar Allan Poe published “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. It is considered to be the first detective story, preadating the first Sherlock Holmes story by forty-six years and Agatha Christie’s birth by fifty-nine years. Poe referred to it as one of his tales of ratiocination, [...]
IF: homage 2008-03-30 19:37:19 The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “homage”.
hom·age (ˈä-mij or ˈhä-mij) n. 1. expression of high regard 2. something that shows respect or attests to the worth or influence of another
I thought of several ideas for this topic. This guy suggested paying homage to René Magritte. Magritte is his favorite artist. Magritte was also the [...]
Monday Artday: pirates (part 2) 2008-04-03 22:24:41 The challenge word at Monday
Artday this week is “pirates”.
This is the second of two drawings for this challenge.
Willie Stargell was unquestionably the guiding force behind the success of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late ’70s. He played his entire career—21 seasons—with The Pirates. He was the league MVP at age 39. Besides being the [...]
Monday Artday: pirates 2008-04-02 22:17:49 The challenge word at Monday
Artday this week is “pirates”.
John Rackam, also known as Calico Jack because of his preference for wearing brightly-colored patchwork pants, was a moderately successful pirate. Rather than attacking plump rich targets, Rackam preferred using a small sloop to attack local merchants and fishing vessels. He is most famous for his [...]
IF: save 2008-04-05 22:29:26 The challenge on illustrationfriday.com this week is “save”.
Pass from the left wing. Skates down ice. It’s a breakaway. Slap shot on goal…..
JESUS SAVES!
SFG: dragon 2008-04-05 15:08:27 The sugarfrostedgoodness.com challenge word is “dragon”.
When I was a kid in the 1960s, every summer usually included one or two trips to Atlantic City. My parents, my older brother and I would pile into the car and take, what seemed to be, the eleven-hour drive from northeast Philadelphia to the southern New Jersey seaside resort [...]
SFG: shy 2008-04-10 21:15:51 Sugarfrostedgoodness.com’s challenge word this week is “shy”.
Andy Partridge, the founder of eclectic rock group XTC, suffered a nervous breakdown, which manifested itself as uncontrollable stage fright. It was brought on by his wife, Marianne, throwing away his supply of Valium. Andy had become dependent upon the drug after it was prescribed to him as a teenager during [...]
Monday Artday: willy wonka 2008-04-09 22:29:23 The challenge this week on Monday
Artday is “Willy Wonka”.
“Wangdoodle!”
“Hornswoggler!”
“Snozzwanger!”
“Rotten Vermicious Knid!”
“candy ass!”
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