“Despite the constant ridicule he endured year after year, Linus continued to wait vigilantly in that pumpkin patch until eventually… the Great Pumpkin came… with a vengeance… and a bag of toys.”
Category: holidays
Last page
A final inkling to draw 2014 to a close. Enjoy the last few paragraphs of this 365 page edition of your life. Celebrate the accomplishments, cherish the memories and learn from the mistakes. Tomorrow we all start a new book. Have a safe and happy new year!
Merry Christmas
Wishing all of our friends and family a very, Merry Christmas! Enjoy this time of peace and celebration with loved ones.
InkTober Ends
As my first InkTober ‘draws’ to a close, the Trick-or-Treaters continue to shiver to my door. I hope you enjoyed the past thirty-one days as much as I have. Thanks to Jake Parker for the challenge and to all who followed, shared and commented on my daily drawings. It was a lot of fun. InkTober […]
The latest string of DirecTV spots featuring Rob Lowe tap into some scary side effects of an actor who just has cable. Lowe’s personification of each of these characters would not be complete without costume and makeup. For this reason I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some ‘Less Attractive’, ‘Super Creepy’ or ‘Painfully Awkward’ […]
Gored Gourds
Once the pumpkins are gutted, everyone craves the carve. We have four orange canvases that will be creatively transformed at some point this week. Every year I aspire to create something more Ray Villafane, but end up with a standard, three-holed lantern with a slightly unpleasant expression.
Coulrophobia
Some people have a legitimate fear of clowns. If you’re lucky you may run into this one on Halloween playing a mean-looking bass.
Horrifying
Halloween is just around the corner. Do you have your costume idea ready? Make sure it isn’t a crappy one.
Halloween Costumes
When I was a kid I had this strange fascination with those commercially ‘boxed’ costume sets. You know the ones. The cheaply, mass-produced, one-ply molded plastic masks, brightly emblazoned with the latest pop culture characters. Often times the proportion of the mask was nowhere near what it should have been to make you look convincing […]
Labor is work
The Labor Day holiday has been an opportunity for many working Americans to celebrate the ‘final’ weekend of summer with an extra day off. So, it seems like cruel irony that many will be working tomorrow when the rest of us are blessed with another day to enjoy. My hat’s off to all those that […]