The first comic strip I’ve drawn, colored and inked in decades. It’s multi-purpose drawing paper, using watercolor pencils and pen & ink.
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Better call Sol
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Good one!
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Yeah, I’m still painting, but lately I feel as though I’m forcing myself. That is not an ideal state of mind to create anything. SIGH.
Annnywho, here’s pix of my east-facing living room wall, and my 90 percent completed coat-of-arms:
The only thing on the wall that I didn’t paint is the “Visitors Must Be Approved By The Cat”. And the floral piece that’s below the eye crying heart-tears was from the lid a greeting card box from the 1960s; I merely embellished it.
“Derelinquas Nos Be” is the motto; it means, “Leave Us Be”. I was born in a Wood Dragon year (and 2024 happens to be one of those years so yippee?), so I painted an odd-looking dragon to appear as it was made of wood. My spirit animal is the North American river otter, so that’s why that’s there…and why am I telling this like anyone cares?
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I’m working on a model of a barbecue restaurant typical of the kitschy type that might have been found on Route 66 in the 1940s. Here is a real example (that’s pretty darn awful):
So I downloaded an STL file of a smiling pig. I modified it, e.g. to hold the restaurant itself, and had it printed at Shapeways. Here is the result:
I’ve yet to place the signs:
It also needs a gravel parking lot, dirt, weeds, and some of my large collection of old time cars and people. And a fenced-in pigsty for a couple of real pigs (models thereof, that is). Or is that too creepy?
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There is a type of creepy that’s also cute, and I think we might be in that sliver of the venn diagram, because of the context. Real life would be too much, but for a model, I find it cute and fun.
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I got 3 vaccines on Tuesday – COVID, flu, and RSV. So naturally on Wednesday I felt awful. So I tried to forget about it by playing with the Blender modeling program.
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VIDEO WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS.
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Yay!! Finishing up a wedding gift for my niece and a first birthday gift for my granddaughter, milling up some walnut for a Xmas gift for her, then starting a wedding gift for another niece. I will get pics to upload over the next couple days, right now just feeling my way through this here new digs.
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I’m still painting, but my phone’s video-camera is recording everything upside-down. And I’ve been through the settings and still can’t figure it out.
I mean, it is a surreal way of presenting things, kindasortamaybe…
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Went to Joann’s to find an occupation for kitty and her two friends during the playdate. Damn the 3 of them are loud.
I found a wood decoration ready for paint on sale. $2.11, the kid’s paints, and an hour later:
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@KeybillyJefe :
The shark card arrived last Friday or Saturday, thanks, but with everything over the last days both off- and online I haven’t even gotten around snapping a pic.
Anyway, thanks!
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So this is an art bowl for my neice’s wedding and a bank inspired by Greek temples for my granddaughter’s first birthday. My first attempt at letter carving, i think it came iut pretty nicely.
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No lathe involved, just gouges, mallets and chisels. Started with big-assed tools and worked my way down.
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wow, man!
i am no woodworker, but even i can see that that is some craftsmanship!
good job, doc! that is an heirloom in its nacency.
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So lovely! The grain is amazing, you’ve a great job bringing it out
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And @KeybillyJefe
Thanks very much. It’s nice to see things from your imagination come to life, more or less as you imagined them!
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That’s some beautiful work, doc!
I love the spalting on the bank. You really showcase it well, along with the fiddleback pattern on the column.
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