BEASTIE BOYS

18 " x 24" pencil, Fude Brush and Acrylic paint on Canson recycled Bristol paper. ( From concert poster)

FLOGGING MOLLY

18" x 24" #2 pencil, Acrylic paint, Speedball super black India ink and Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush on Bristol paper.  From photo of rock poster.

MORRISON SKETCHBOOK TO PAINTING

18" x 24" Acrylic on canvas. From sketchbook to painting.

CYCLOPS

8 1/2" x 5"  Uniball pen in Moleskine sketchbook. Study from an Emek sketch.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIE!

16" x 20" acrylic on canvass

JIM MORRISON

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 @3 brush and Faber Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook.  Sketch is for a larger painting in the works.

NIRVANA

14" x 11" Pencil, Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush and acrylic on Bristol paper.  Our Oscar in the Netherlands turns 9 years old on September 30th.  He is a big fan of Nirvana so I made him a fantasy concert poster (he will be the opening act).  Will mail it tomorrow!

GYNOID WARRIOR

8 1/2" x 5 "  Uniball pen, Speedball super black India ink, Hunt 102 crowquill pen, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush in Moleskine sketchbook.

POOLDOG

 8 1/2" x 5 " Uniball pen, Speedball super black India ink and Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush in Moleskine sketchbook. (From photo on rock poster.)

PEARL JAM

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China white marker in Canson Sketchbook. From a photo of the concert poster done by Emek.

MAN IN LIBRARY

8 1/2" x 5" Uniball pen in Moleskine Sketchbook

AMBROSE BURNSIDE

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Speedball super black India ink, Hunt 102 crowquill pen and  Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Canson sketchbook.  ..." Burnside had repeatedly demonstrated that it had been a military tragedy to give him a rank higher than colonel. One reason might have been that, with all his deficiencies, Burnside never had any angles of his own to play; he was a simple, honest, loyal soldier, doing his best even if that best was not very good, never scheming or conniving or backbiting. Also, he was modest; in an army many of whose generals were insufferable prima donnas, Burnside never mistook himself for Napoleon. Physically he was impressive: tall, just a little stout, wearing what was probably the most artistic and awe-inspiring set of whiskers in all that bewhiskered Army." - Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln's Army.  (And what a pair of sideburns!)

DONALD DAWG

11" x 17" Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush, #2 pencil, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Canson sketchbook. "Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously, and the politicians as a joke, when it used to be vice versa." - Will Rogers

TRUMP vs ROUSEY

11" x 17" Speedball super black India ink, Hunt 102 crow quill pen and Faber Castell Pitt big brush pens in Canson sketchbook.

11TH and Madison, Corvallis, Oregon

Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens, Speedball super black India ink, Winsor Newton Series 7 #3 brush in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT #5 SHOW THE WORLD YOUR PERSONALITY

18" x 24" Oil on canvas

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT #4 - SLAP A CHARGING BULL ON THE NOSE TO CHANGE HIS MIND

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China white marker in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT #3 - LOOKS GOOD ON ANYONE

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China white marker in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT - #1 THEY KEEP OUT THE SUN

 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

MY HAT

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pen and acrylic paint in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

5 USES FOR A COWBOY HAT # 2 - THEY KEEP OFF THE RAIN

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China white marker in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

MONTANA PEAKS HAT COMPANY

Kinda smoky there these days but if you need a cowboy hat this is the place to get one in Pendleton, Oregon. They list five uses for a cowboy hat and I'll post the drawings for them over the next five days.  11 1/2" x  8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell Pitt big brushes in Moleskine A3 Sketchbook

CRUMBLIKE PRACTICE #5

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice. Added some Speedball super black India ink too.

BUKOWSKI

Bukowski  - 11 1/2" x 8 1/2"  Faber -Castell Pitt big brush pens, Speedball super black India ink, Raphael 8404 brush and Derwent Graphik line painter in Canson sketchbook.  "You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time, all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

CRUMBLIKE PRACTICE #4

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice. Added some Speedball super black India ink too.

CRUMBLIKE PRACTICE #3

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice. Added some Speedball super black India ink too.

CRUMBLIKE PRACTICE #2

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice.  Added some Speedball super black India ink too.

CRUMB LIKE PRACTICE

On vacation I had a Uniball pen and a small 8 1/2" x 5 " Moleskine sketchbook along and did some Crumb like sketches for practice.

FEEDING TIME

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook. From an old advertising poster. It shows the many uses for a cowboy hat.

RED CLOUD

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook. The Plains Indians, led by Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud, were victorious in what has gone down in history as Red Cloud’s War (1866-1868). The Army had built three forts—Stephen Kearny, Reno, C.F. Smith—on the Bozeman Trail that ran from near Fort Laramie to the gold fields of Montana Territory. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 gave the Indians control of the Powder River Country, at least temporarily, and they burned down the three abandoned forts in late July. Red Cloud finally signed the treaty in November after the forts were no more.

STEVE McQUEEN and GERONIMO

Steve McQueen 11 1/2"  x 8 1/2" and Geronimo  11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens and China Marker in Moleskine A3 sketchbook.  Inspired by one of my favorite movies (Tom Horn 1980).  I especially like one of the first scenes where the future heavyweight champion picks a fight with Horn because Horn declares that “Geronimo's a man so great, that Corbett there would have to stand on his mothers shoulders to kiss his ass…”.

KURT VONNEGUT

KURT VONNEGUT - 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Fude brush and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook. "The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way to make life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."

DAVE

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Fude brush and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook. Dave is our computer genius nephew who lives in California. This may be the first portrait I've done of him and I hope he likes it. Time for a visit Dave!

LANDSCAPE

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook

SITTING BULL 1831 - 1890

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine A4 sketchbook

PRELIMINARY SKETCH

 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and Faber-Castell Pitt big brush pens in Moleskine A3 sketchbook. Once I get it corrected and sussed out I'll do a large painting with acrylics.

STUDY FOR BUFFALO

 11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Fude brush and acrylic in Moleskine A3 sketchbook.  This from work by Larry Pirnie an amazing artist whose work I study because it really loosens me up color wise.

REMINGTON SKETCH

 8 /12" x 5 1/2" Uniball pen and ink in Stillman and Birn Beta sketchbook. We were off to the Oregon coast to beat the heat last week and do some gambling. I wasn't going to sketch but found a pen and pencil with this sketchbook in my bag along with a Remington book and a True West magazine. Might as well try to learn from a master like Frederick Remington so sketched this.

PRELIMINARY SKETCH 7 HORSES

8 1/2" x 11 1/2" Uniball pen, Watercolor, Acrylic and ink in Moleskine A4 sketchbook. I'm planning a big colorful painting of these seven horses and that requires some sketchbook work.

TOM MIX MOVIE POSTER

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen, Fude brush and watercolor in Moleskine A4 sketchbook.  Our Rio is a cowgirl and recently asked me to start painting horses again so I'm getting back into the swing of it.

IN A MEDICI VILLA

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine A4 sketchbook. (From a painting by Sargent). I've been reading about John Singer Sargent and I'm completely fascinated by his watercolors. I decided to play fast and loose with the colors and texture to loosen up and have some fun while getting back into watercolor.

DAVID McCULLOUGH AT WORK

8 1/2" x 11 1/2" Uniball pen, watercolor and china marker in Moleskine A4 sketchbook (from photo)

DAVID McCULLOUGH WORLD HEADQUARTERS

11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine A4 sketchbook. One of my favorite writers is David McCullough. He works in this little building on his property and insists that it is not a shed, it's his office or "world headquarters". He has received 2 Pulitzer prizes and has written all of his books on a beautiful second hand manual Royal typewriter. No telephone, computer or distractions in this HQ. Adults not welcome but small children are allowed. His latest book is The Wright Brothers. If you like great stories I highly recommend all of his work. His watercolors are great too!

SANDMAN

SANDMAN  11 1/2" x 8 1/2" Speedball super black India ink and Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 brush in Canson sketchbook

OUT IN THE WARD

PATIENT ON THE WARD

NURSE ON THE WARD

CUCKOO'S NEST

Rereading some favorite books and trying out some illustration ideas. This from the Sketches Introduction to the 40th anniversary edition of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: "Eight o'clock every morning I showed up at the vets' hospital in Menlo PRereading some favorite books and trying outark ready to roll. The doctor deposited me in a little room on his ward, dealt me a couple of pills or a shot or a little glass of bitter juice, then locked the door. He checked back every forty minutes to see if I was still alive, took some tests, asked some questions, left again. The rest of the time I spent studying the inside of my forehead, or looking out the one little window in the door. It was six inches wide and eight inches high, and it had heavy chicken wire inside the glass. You get your visions through whatever gate you're granted. Patients straggled by in the hall outside, their faces all ghastly confessions. Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another. It was too naked and painful. More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear, face to face.Sometimes the nurse came by and checked on me. Her face was different. It was painful business, but not naked. This was not a person you could allow yourself to be naked in front of."