Cam 4 (Parody Portrait 96)

287&320

Parody Portrait #96 (inks)

Also celebrating his birthday today.

Orlando (part 2)

Orlando (part 1)

Happy Easter, 2019!

Every now and then, Easter falls on a blog day.

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 12)

 So for the first time in a very long time we have Good Friday off. The fam is heading down to visit Poppi at his Physical Rehab joint, there is a big storm heading across the state, and I'm at school racing the rain at 6:00 am on my day off. My own fault, I know. I actually like the school this early and alone.

I have done a TERRIBLE job updating my blog this last month. It look slike I'm finally caught up. Sometimes I'm ahead on projects by a few days/weeks and other times I fall behind. This mural is one of those "fall behind" times. I knew I'd have to crop all of the individual panoramic pics of the mural and I wanted to wait until I had a good amount done.

With Little P visiting Washington D.C. and New York the week before Spring Break and baseball season starting up in conjunction with the "April" mural and "May Play" I've been bad about keeping track of reading to the boys (something I plan on stopping with the beginning of high school.) Anyway, here is the CURRENT score: 286& 319

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 11)

Finishing the background trees.

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 10)

More night-time drawing.

(April 18)

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 9)

Drawing characters by night and painting background trees by day.

(April 17, 2019)

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 8)

I dropped by school earlier in the morning (6am) so I could use the overhead to project the drawings. This is something that I do every year. What I DON'T do every year is paint the characters over a pre-existing background. (I prefer the white walls to show through.)

I made it this far before the overhead bulb blew...on the projector I consider the "back-up." Thankfully the building supervisor, Mr. Worden was there. He unlocked the media center for me and we found another overhead projector. (All of this happened in April 17)

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 7)

More greens. Honestly from April 15.

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 6)

Further filling in those greens. Moving on to lighter hues.

(This is from the future: April 14, 2019. At least I'm posting in the same month.)

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 5)

Outlining more green patches for the Art Club to fill in.

(Again with the cheating. This is from the future: April 13, 2019)

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 4)

Continuing to add green grass designs. Starting with the darkest greens first.
(More cheating with this post. From the Future: April 12, 2019)

Painting the 2019 Mural (Part 3)

Starting the green grass design.

(Also cheating. From the future: April 7th with help from the fam. RamJoe played catch with Big D)