Vulcan juggling lava

My 6 year old daughter Rachel created this animation of her character Vulcan the volcano, juggling his piece of lava.

2" x 2", 12-8-11

2" x 2", 12-8-11 a photo by Marc Snyder on Flickr.

After Rembrandt, with bonus T-Rex

book cover for "The TSANTA Expedition"

book cover for "The TSANTA Expedition" a photo by Marc Snyder on Flickr.

I was delighted to do the drawing for the cover of Joseph Ridgwell's "The Tsanta Expedition", beautifully produced by Bottle of Smoke Press

Drawing to be Destroyed

Hopefully transformed, instead of destroyed. A drawing on a linoblock that I've just started cutting.

Paperwhite Narcissus

Along with the seedlings we've got some bulbs blooming. The Paperwhite Narcissus are very pretty and kinda smelly.

Sharks

My daughter has a tiny rubber shark with delusions of grandeur.

Dreaming of Spring

This morning's dinosaur sketch was declared "OK" by my daughter

A crumb from my sketchbook - the T-Rex Hat

Do You Recall?

Here's the latest book from the FIMP Book of the Month Club." So you thought Rudolph was the only mutant reindeer that isolated herd at the North Pole produced? Think again!

The first sketchbook item from 2011

The last drawing from 2010

Missing The Point

I've got sketchbooks full of studies from great artwork - it was something my various professors strongly encouraged, and something I encouraged my students to do. Here's a page of studies I just made where I challenged myself to create recognizable reproductions that were completely pointless in terms of learning anything significant about the artwork in question. The Rothko kind of fails at completely failing, as the values tell you a little something about the work. I think the Monet most satisfactorily succeeds at failing to convey anything meaningful about the painting in question.

Rep. Joe Barton or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Carbon Dioxide

“I would also point out that CO2, carbon dioxide, is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term. … I am creating it as I talk to you. It’s in your Coca-Cola, you’re Dr. Pepper, your Perrier water. It is necessary for human life. It is odorless, colorless, tasteless, does not cause cancer, does not cause asthma.” - Rep. Joe Barton

Rachel's Animated Crocodile

My four year old daughter Rachel makes "cards" where she folds a piece of paper in half, draws on the inside and the outside, and often signs her name on the back. Yesterday she had made a card and was flipping it open and closed, watching the crocodile open and close its mouth. Her first animation!



You can find more of her wonderful drawings at Rachel Draws A Lot.

Christmas Island Pipistrelle

I've found that if I draw something I'm more likely to remember it, so I thought I'd draw something that should be remembered.

A Little Drawing Of My Little Daughter Drawing.

Ketchup spoon

Shark on Driveway

See the finished drawing at Rachel Draws A Lot.