Referral Friday is part of an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! A few months ago, on our way between picking up some Saturday morning coffee and steeling ourselves for [...]
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For those of you who do most of your creating off-stage, you may not have experienced the ¡olé! moment. That’s my new-favorite term for the magical thing that happens when you get in the zone and out of the way and the work just flows through you. The term comes to me via the astonishing [...]
While I have been noticably AWOL here of late, I’ve been off-the-charts generative in other parts of my life. Even reductive, as necessary. Writing. Designing. Cleaning. Writing. Creating presentations for me to speechify. (Yes, multiple: when it rains, it pours, baby.) Writing off-color songs and performing them before a live audience (use caution with that [...]
It seems impossible that my cohort is turning 50, and yet, there it is. I’m sliding into it myself, just three years and change to go. Truth be told, I can’t wait: my 40s were so much better than my 30s, which were so much better than my 20s, which were so much better than [...]
I have not yet got the hang of this Illustration Friday thing. Apparently, you IMMEDIATELY draw the topic when it’s announced on Friday, then upload as soon as possible so that everyone sees your thumbnail first. (Non-competitive and non-judgmental, my Aunt Fanny….) So it is too late to submit my entry under last week’s topic, [...]
Nerds with a secret are like little kids before Christmas: they cannot, CANNOT, I tell you, wait for the big day. The big day, in this case, was supposed to be closer to baseball season. Or at least post-Stupid Bowl. But I could not, COULD NOT, I tell you, wait one more second. Because I [...]
Me, selling more pre-communicatrix art at a later (1973) Gold Coast Art Fair. Ponied up for the license this time, too. Paid for the framing, taxes on sales and everything, even though Doting Grandfather offered to pay the expenses and let me enjoy the profit. Not my style. That shirt I’m wearing? 100% hair! And [...]
I’m a cartoon He’s a cartoon She’s a cartoon They’re a cartoon Wouldn’t you like to be a cartoon, too? xxx c TAGS: illustration, self-portraits, Wally Torta, Sparky Donatello
Sometimes the path to self-clarity involves a lot of sketching. This time, it involved a lot of Photoshop filters. Not much time left to the marathon. Then again, there’s not that much time left to my marathon, if you catch my drift. So here I am on the high board, jumping. Watch me, Mom! Mom, [...]
Let’s be upfront about this: I don’t give a crap about sports. You can have your football, your soccer, your precious curling, with the exception of one strange season in college where I was possessed by the magic that is hockey, up close and personal, I don’t get it. So this whole World Series hoo-hah [...]
