Popcorn & Root Beer

All summer I have been trying to set aside some time to design a couple paintings that would go together as a set... and that would have a sort of 50's-ish tin sign look. I love all the retro-ish stuff, and I love popcorn and root beer, so voila!

Took me what felt like 100 years designing them with all my A.D.D. ideas and variations before I got to the painting stage, but here is what I finally came up with. Since I have sold a grand total of one paintings, I perhaps might see if I can find a buyer for these puppies.

These digi pics won't do the colours justice, but ya get the idear. In any case, I had fun with them!

I tried to go with buttery colours...mmm....

I love canvas for the wrap-around capabilities. More fun.

I had a heck of time getting the right "root beer" brown, but I think I got it in the end.

Countless Caffe Kooks

Here's a few random caffe drawrings I have done in the past few weeks. Caffe crazyness yo!

These peeps were at a table together when we were at this coffee shop in Gimli [on my birthday no less!]. The lady in the middle seemed rather crotchety! She looks like a Ruth.

This dude looks like a Gary. I was standing in a line for a while with some friends last night, and he seemed to be the most drawable.

I drew this guy whilst driving to Grand Forks. He just developed from me drawing random circles. I turned him into some mobster/chef with the help of the girls in the car.

Kaylee's just shoppin'. In all her green shirt contentment.

Winston & Co.

[From left] Biggles, Amelia [on tail], Winston, Prissy & Elvira. [She liked her grub.]

Today was Mom's birthday [she's 39....again!] and so I sat down and finally did something I have been meaning to do for a while – drew her critters all together. Drawings in place of presents work well when you're short on funds!!

It has been long overdue anyway to draw her cat [Disgruntled] Winston – his expressions alone are hilare. That one up there is his classic. My parents in the course of a few years have gone through 4 rats, all of which they loved dearly. Even the hairless one [hence, pink] in the left corner. She was slow, and in my opinion, not all there. She more often than not attempted to eat her own shavings instead of actual food.

Happy Birthday Momsy! Winston loves it, you can tell.

Chuck Amuck. A spoonful of inspirato.

My sketchy attempt at Monsieur Chuck Jones. Gotta love the staple bowtie!

I spent my bday down at Wpg Beach last week - how better to spend it than by the lake?? One of the lovely things I did, besides lotsa swimming, eating, and air guitar, was reading. Lotsa reading. Reading these days is gravely underrated!!

So as per my Chuck Jones up there, I finally finished his animated autobiography, and it was SUCH a great read! Perhaps it had a lot to do with my intense admiration for such a man as this, and it may have also doubly interested me due to my animated studies... but I recommend it for any reader! His life was so interesting, and his writing style is of high regard.

There were so, so, sooooo many gems in this book I wish I could remember, but here's one that stands out. I agree whole-heartedly.

"You must remember always that only man, of all creatures, can blush, or needs to; that only man can laugh, or needs to; and that if you are in that trade of helping others to laugh and to survive by laughter, then you are privileged indeed." ~CJ

I give it 5 out of 5 Marvin Martian Acme Disintegrating Pistols!