Momentum


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My first thought was, Toby Mac. You know; I'm a man on a mission, my position is Momentum.

But then I thought, nothing says momentum like a falling pack of woolly mammoths. Right?

So play Bass

Every time I stand up I get dizzy. I’m pretty sure I have an inner ear infection. My eyes are puffy, my nose is stuffy, so what’s a guy to do. Play bass.



Cloak and Dagger, done best by Percy Heath, and most poorly by me, especially with an inner ear infection.

ps, if you are really sharp you might see a wog sitting in the background :)

Tag, I’m it.

Karen Lee tagged me with a meme which I guess is a way for me to bore you with what are suppose to be interesting facts about me. I know, a thrill a minute! So here it goes.


The Rules:
Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names (see below), then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.



8. I used to be a Wombat:
In my college days, I was the lead singer and bass player for the Wombats. We toured around NYC playing small venues whenever we could get a chance. Claim to fame was playing CBGB’s which was pretty fab in the day. I’ve written at least 500 original songs (some half decent), all of which are recorded on tape and collecting dust in a box in my closet.

7. I am a professional bagel baker:
having baked bagels for Brueggers in NC and Zaros in NY (to name a few).

6. I like gospel music:
I have 103.9 the Light programmed into my jeep’s radio. I’m probably the only white boy who would know how the Melissa Wade in the water song goes or could tell you the difference between Kirk Franklin and the Kirk Carr Singers.

5. I have a collection of political memorabilia:
Especially, but not limited to, Richard Nixon. Items include bumper stickers, pins/buttons, magazines and old newspapers. I even have a copy of the August 9th, 1974 New York Post, the day Nixon announced his resignation.

4. I wanted to be a toy designer:
In college I seriously considered a career in toy design, having developed prototypes, created a portfolio and interviewed with several NYC companies.

3. I have strange tastes buds:
I will try anything at least once, especially if it contains weird stuff like insects, mollusks or other invertebrates. Possibly the strangest meal I have ever consumed was fried mealworms in butter and garlic. They have a nutty flavor.

2. My photo is on the wall at Buffalo Wild Wings:
I love hot, spicy foods. Not just hot but insanely hot foods. I have a collection of hot sauces that could melt metal. So when Buffalo Wild Wings had a contest to see if someone could eat 12 of their Blazen wings in under 6 minutes, I was up for the challenge. That’s some hot sauce but I won a t-shirt and my face posted on their winner wall.

1. I once wrote Debbie Gibson a fan letter.


So to be meme’d...

Steve

Kathleen Rietz

Platinum Blonde

Carla

Alphabets


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Practicing my stored shark symbols. Not to difficult. I have been drawing sharks the same way since Jaws (4th grade). Now that is a stored symbol!

In other news, I am really ticked off at my scanner. What’s its problem? Why can’t it work? It wasn’t cheap (price) but it scans like (grrrrrrr!)

Edge of the Forest


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All week long I have been training my students not to use stored symbols, to draw what they see. We ran through all the know exercises, blind contour drawing, drawing something upside down, drawing positive and negative space, etc… So what a hypocrite I am sitting at my art desk practicing my stored deer symbols!


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Here is the entire image.

Goldfish


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Well, I never drew fish before so the learning thing is, doodle first.

I should have sat and doodled a few fish. I jumped right in which worked ok for the previous giraffe cause I've drawn giraffes lots. It even worked ok for the goldfish on the right. But the fish climbing out, not so much. OK, it's still a learning process.

Visitor


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By the tilt of the streetlight, it could be that he is visiting the windy city. However, I personally think it is NYC because the pizza is soo much better there.

This is the second in an attempt to conquer this pen style thingy I have been struggling with. I like this one. I think I'm on to it.

(ps: the secret: pen, then scribble, then paint!)

and now, here is the first one...


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The zebra is just a visitor to the cow field. He actually lives in the brick ranch just down the street across from the widow Cooper’s house.



Hey, this pen thing is proving harder than I thought, which is good, I guess. Keeps me on my toes. If I can figure it all out, I think it could be a pretty neat goings on.

Cow Three



After doodling my cows with black ballpoint pen, I decided to try to color them. I toyed with several different techniques and media. I even jotted down notes to remind myself of what I thought worked and what I thought didn't.

After I was done, I liked this one the best. So now I have a baseline. I would do more tonight but I’m pretty tired from playing hockey last night. We played in the championship game and lost. I took a total of 55 shots in 60 minutes of play. That's too many shots to draw cows tonight.

Ballpoint Pen



See, that’s what I’m talking about.



I want to create art that loose, that free but I want it to look like the image in the banner… colorful, bright, energetic. How do I do that??

Moo?