Picassoesquefluidwoman
Downloaded the free app called "Fluid Monkey" last night. It's a tactile program that creates moving color swirls. I grabbed a screenshot in mid swirl and used it for the background for this drawing.
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The Beach Club
I was imagining one of those seaside beach clubs just outside the city. Kind of like the one in The Flamingo Kid.
Sitting on the Dock by the Bay
I was listening to that great song by Otis Redding when I sketched this out. Redding died in a plane crash in 1968 and this song was released posthumously by Stax records. Otis and Steve Cropper wrote the song together and Steve did the final mix just days after the crash.
Spring Has Sprung!
There's a buzz in the air. The hills are vibrant green (for now) and the flowers are shifting into high gear. I can tell by how many boxes of tissues I go through in a week.
First Day of Spring
Old Man Winter heads for the hills.
Hey Joe, Got Gum?
That was a phrase American soldiers in foreign countries heard a lot. And if they did have gum, there's a good chance it was one of these brqnds.
Pass the Hot Sauce
Tabasco sauce was invented in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny, in Lousiana. John Avery McIlhenny, Edmund's son ran the business after his father's death, but resigned after a few years to join Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders volunteer cavalry regiment. The business is still run by a family member six generations later.
Green Day
No, not the band, the actual day. Walking around town there were people all over with green on. I threw on a shirt not thinking about it but as the luck of the Irish would have it, it was green. Now where's that corn beef?
The local fauna
I'm lousy at horticulture so I don't what type of plant this is. Hey I just draw 'em. Maybe one of you out there can identify it. If not I'm sure Barb will chime in when she gets on FB.
"You Got it All Wrong Mike, I'm the Hunted One"
The Godfather was released this day in 1972. I was watching it for awhile the other night and did this portrait of Don Barzini, played by Richard Conte. Interestingly Conte was originally up for the Don Corleone role ultimately played by Marlon Brando.
