Yes, That's Richard Simmons Hugging My Friend Dave...

Bonus post today since tomorrow I will be away from my computer (and markers) all day at work/etc.

Bikinis, Beers, and Drummers oh my!

Each week I have been treating myself to a handful of new markers, so you'll notice some new color additions (oh so exciting--for me!). So enjoy some of the new colors!

Me, Pete, and a couple of Chris'

Well, the scanner did something weird and made all my drawings squishy-looking, so you should click on them to see larger images.

Here's a picture of Pete (looking like less of a yokel, but still not quite Pete), and musician Chris Cain (whom we all just love).

Billy Bacon, Josh & Tom, and my Dad

Can't Stop...

Well, I finished baking my Christmas Maple-Cream pie early, and felt like drawing some more. Can't really help it.

Big, Fat, Christmas Post

I wasn't sure how much time I'd have over the weekend to draw and post pictures, so here are 5 I did yesterday. I am having so much fun drawing my friends in creepy-style, that I can't seem to stop. I hope you like them! As always (but I always forget to mention) for a larger view of the picture, click on it!

Homies

This was right before we all went to see Hall and Oates at the state fair...a magical night indeed.

Zoo Buds

Friendly doodles - doesn't really look like Tony, Tony, or Pete...but I like it regardless.

Game-Faces

Governor's Cup Raceday grimaces.

Coffee-Pants

Decided to post the coffee-spill incident anyway. :) It makes me laugh, so hopefully it does the same for you!

Hair-Goggles

Since I spilled coffee all over today's drawing, I decided that, rather than not post anything, I would post a drawing I didn't have time to frame for my last art show. More marker-fun tomorrow, I am too angry to try again...

Starry starry night...

I like my new Prismacolor markers. Today I was just playing with them...I think it'll take some practice to get good with them, but they remind me of being a kid and how much fun it was to color things!

Me+Drawing Pens=Winter Break

I am finally on winter break from school. I hadn't forgotten about my blog here...but I guess I was kind of bored by my content. Instead of detailing my sorry list of all the projects I started and never finished, I think I will just post bits of my projects and favorite things and have fun with it.

Last Christmas my brother Günter and his wife Beca bought me an awesome printer/scanner. Though I've printed millions of papers in the last 11 weeks, I have yet to use the scanner. I thought it would be fun if I posted "a picture a day" for as long as I can. I am currently working on an art project for a show sometime in the spring, and could use some motivation (like a pressing need to post a picture a day) to work on it and not just lay on my couch all break watching "Bones."

So, there you have it-- another project (but I think this one will be fun). And it gives me a reason to buy some PrismaColor markers (of which an artist can never have too many.

Changes

Seems like a lot of things are changing. Thankfully the season is one of them, though, today is really the first warm day in months and months and I may be jinxing this change by acknowledging it...oh well.

The second thing to change is the date of my spring art show. The new date is May 16th because that is the next available Sunday. So, there it is, tell your friends. I am having trouble with the giant (50" X 50") drawings I was talking about. The main problem is...starting them. I just keep staring at those big blank sheets of expensive paper and I'm afraid to put ink to them. Every time I unfurl them I stare for awhile, fall into the white abyss, panic, and roll em' back up. I'm going to try to just dive in on Monday because I've got this fun idea of hundreds of people connected by a "unibrow." Anyway, all the smaller drawing are coming along nicely and I really like them. Just have to get T to frame them up...which is hard because we can't stain the frames until a nice day comes along because it's an outdoor job...so hopefully this weather holds.

Third thing changing is my triathlon this summer. I opened my email today and they've announced that the CSG's are in JUNE this year because of all the Special Olympics events in July. The date is Sunday June 20th now, which poses a few problems for me. 1. It's father's day and going to the lake would probably kill me after a tri... and 2. the following week is "thespian week" downtown...a week in which I can not afford to be tired, for my job's sake and my sanity's sake and finally 3. since I've been sick for a month my training is already off and it's a whole month of brick-training lost...ugh. Enough whining, we all know I'm still going to do it, it was way too much fun last year and I'd be mad at myself if I didn't...I'm just all nervous about it again. Wish me luck.

Two exciting things come with spring: gardening and tennis. I am starting seeds indoors and will hopefully get some pictures of that (any tips on seed-starting are appreciated, especially the "hardening off" of the baby plants), and I'm taking more tennis lessons through SCC April-May. Hooray!

I am sorry there are no pictures to accompany this post...along with a new bike, new running shoes, and a new tennis racquet, I'd like to buy a digital camera. How to finance all that!? Hm...re: art show May 16. It would make my blog much more interesting if people bought all my silly hair-people art...