HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter to all! This is a pen and ink drawing that was colored with pastels and some magic markers! Pastels do give it a softer, more lush look and feel which I really like.

My Tribute To Halloween (Or "Ah, The Good Ol' Days!")

This started out to just be a simple sketch that I was going to post on my blog but then it seemed to take on a life of it's own and I got more involved with it. This is a Halloween tribute to myself or rather my childhood. I looked at a pic of me when I was four in the classic Ben Cooper Spider-Man costume and decided to do a cartoon version of me on a typical Halloween back when I was little. This piece got even more personal when I added the same 'Trick Or Treat' bag that I used as a kid and added my Spider-Man Web-Shooter toy on the wrist. I used to run around with one on each wrist as a kid so it made the piece all come together in the end.

Here's me at four years of age (and just about to turn five) wearing the costume in 1975!

Here's an ad from one of the comics I read back then to advertise the Halloween costume!

And here's an ad for the Spider-Man Web-Shooter, with an ad for the classic Power Records super hero records just below it! It's a perfect memento of two key things in my childhood!

And here is a pic of the Spider-Man Web-Shooter that I found on eBay several years ago and I bought it. It's hard to find in this kind of shape now still being mint on the card and it's one of my prized possessions that I have.

All in all, this is one of the most personal pieces of art that I think I've done yet to date. Hope you like it and my tribute to the holiday as Halloween 2010 is this weekend!

Even Monsters Need Love...

Something cute and fun...even Monsters have a heart! Burned this sketch out quick as I remember and it got used on a kids book last year. I threw some color on it to make it pop more.

HAPPY EASTER!

HAPPY EASTER! Here's a pic from the ye olden times that I did that was colored with markers and pastel. Mid 90's I'm guessing it was done, maybe somewhere around '95 or '96.

HALLOWEEN MONSTER Board Books! Are they cute or what?!?

I finally took these pictures off my camera tonight and finally got them ready to post. These pics are of two little board books for Halloween that Walmart sold this year. The publisher sent me copies of them so I couldn't tell you where they were in the Walmart stores since their stores are so big and now it's all loaded up with Christmas stuff. They were most likely around the candy and costumes. At any rate, these cute little books were sold for a $1 each and they made for a nice little gift for a beginning reader! Dalmatian Press took generic stock art I did for them way back in 2004 and repackaged it to make two cute little stories. It was nice of them to give me credit on the back of them as well! I'll have these for sale when I get my little online store up and running here! Enjoy the pics of them I took. The lighting wasn't great when I took these pics but these little books look great in front of you! I took some shots of what some of the interiors look like...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORMA JEAN!

Marilyn Monroe's birthday was June 1st so this is a belated Happy Birthday. She would have been 87 this year. Happy Birthday, Norma Jean...This is a pen and ink wash drawing I did in the late 90's in one of her iconic poses. I still have the original art for it and never sold it cause I liked the way it came out. Enjoy!