Saturday, September 12, 2015

Saturday, September 5, 2015

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!)

Friday, September 4, 2015

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

Thursday, September 3, 2015

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.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

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

Sunday, August 30, 2015

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

Saturday, August 29, 2015

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

Friday, August 28, 2015

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

Thursday, August 27, 2015

MY HAT

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

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

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

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

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.

Friday, August 21, 2015

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.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

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.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

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.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

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.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

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.

Friday, July 31, 2015

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.