ONE OF THESE DAYS

I am hoping to take this quarter off with my classes. My academic adviser and I are playing phone tag over this lovely holiday weekend. I am burned out scholastically, getting geared up for a new professional adventure (stay tuned) and am losing my mind. Also, I will be a grandmother any moment now...

Please, NO UNMEDICATED EMAILING. Thank-You.
The Establishment.

...it can’t be helped if there’s a lot of it about.


AND IF
The cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunesI'll see you on

I love when stories start: We fired our lead singer and his best friend is was the artist...

The above were three samples that I gathered. The final poster is the one that put it all into:

Haven't heard from them since.

TICKING AWAY
the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours. In an off-hand way.

A very surrealistic way to spend moments that make up a dull day...

Balldroppings.com

The balls fall and you draw lines. As the ball hits the line, it emanates a sound. The tone is controlled through gravity, placement of the line, speed and alcohol consumption on the users part. There are control nobs to the users' bottom right. Not the nobs on the users' right bottom, the nobs on the bottom right of the users' screen.

I make the same sounds when my bottom right is adjusted

Collins' Craptastic Cacophony of Kvetch

I felt artsy, intelligent, and wasted all at the same time. After 30 minutes that I will never again have in my life, I discovered this - THE PAGE OF DIRECTIONS:

Balldroppings Expose

Now... I am just merely confused. There is such a thing as too many possibilities for us dim witted, you know.

Please, Follow Directions. Thank-You.
The Management.

KICKING AROUND ON A PIECE OF GROUND IN THESE HERE TOLEDO
(Waiting for someone or something to show you the way)

That-a-way, Bay-bee!

Austin is my shining beacon every morning in These Here Toledo. He points me right to my studio come rain or shine. I can't see him in the dark, however.

My Dream Van

Let's play: "Guess Which Bumper Sticker Caught My Attention"

WAS IT:
[A] If Found Please Return to Detroit
[B] Libertarian

[C] I'm Not Wearing Pants
[D] Parent Honor Student
[E] The "Family" stickers illustrating this particular nuclear family as one with plenty of guns, knives, hunting dogs and archery equipment. Apparently, the youngest girl poses the biggest threat to the unit as she is the only one unarmed, is surrounded, and has an arrow heading right for her head.

ɔ : ɹəʍsuɐ

TELL THEM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY!
They've won
SQUIRREL UNDERPANTS! 
[Cheers from Crowd Here]

SQUIRREL UNDERPANTS!

The lovely Carol Merril Models
SQUIRREL UNDERPANTS!

I say! I now have a fancy place
to store my nuts -- in my brand new
SQUIRREL UNDERPANTS!










SQUIRREL UNDERPANTS!SQUIRREL UNDERPANTS!SQUIRREL UNDERPANTS!


US AND THEM
When the relations would come to visit my dad used to blithely say, "Oh, boy. The circus is in town."





Is it just me, or are there vague similarities between the Clown Cruiser and this:




COINCIDENCE?
Or mere semantics?
What are semantics?
“Haven't you heard it's a battle of words,” the poster bearer cried.

RUN, RUN RABBIT RUN
The Newest from Studio 566:

FOLLOW HIM
Illustrator

DEATH WITH HIS BUNNY II
Illustrator

STEAMPUNK
Illustrator

STEAMPUNK JACK
Graphite

RUSSETTE AND HER ATTITUDE
Watercolor & Ink

All the above bunnies can be found at: http://www.zazzle.com/ragingbuns
In fact, if you click HERE it will take you HERE.





THE SUN IS THE SAME IN THE RELATIVE WAY

A Pink Floyd exploration. PIG MAN
First, how to draw a pig:




Then I draw the rest of the Floydian illustration:

HOME, HOME AGAIN…Across the small yard lives the neighbor. Somewhere else somewhere near lives a mild mannered young boy who dresses as WOLVERINE. Everyday. EVERY. DAY. I managed to capture this elusive creature as he ding dong ditched the neighbor and was succeeding in his plan of escape.

In that single instant, he was Wolverine.
Len Wein

One afternoon, not so long after this, the elusive creature was spotted with super-hero drawers down around his ankles whizzing on that larger bush. I do not know what the neighbors did to incure the Wrath of Wolverine, but I am glad I am not them.

The neighbor's bush after
WOLVERINATING

PIECES OF ME

My version of fuzzy dice

My River

One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces...

Pink Floyd Was Here

FIFTEEN MINUTES AND COUNTING

ART IS ANYTHING
YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH

HUH?

AS PROMISED

POPPED UP WHEN I GOOGLE "AS PROMISED"

TOLEDO MUD HENS OPENING DAY 2012
The project that has had me hidden away for awhile:
The cover for THE TOLEDO FREE PRESS Opening Day for the Toledo Mud Hens:

MY NAME!

See the online version of the 90 page Toledo Free Press Mud Hens Opening Day special here:
http://www.toledofreepress.com/2012/03/30/pounds-put-me-in-coach/

WANNA BUY 5 COPIES FOR MY MOTHER

The design is also featured as a poster insert in this week’s FREE PRESS STAR:

CENTERFOLD WITHOUT
STAPLES IN MY NAVEL!

And as if all of that wasn’t exciting enough, my cover went national and is listed as one of the best opening day front pages on Charles Apple’s American Copy Editor Society column! The Toledo Free Press is listed with RedEye — the free commuter tab published by the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald and other “heavy hitters”!

The TOLEDO FREE PRESS is listed as:
Batting last but starring on the mound today is our pitcher, the twice-weekly…
FREE PRESS --Toledo, Ohio.

I ILLUSTRATED THE MUDDY ALSO!

Scroll down to see it for yourself!
http://apple.copydesk.org/2012/04/05/a-starting-lineup-of-the-days-best-opening-day-front-pages/

4/5/12
Charles Apple from the American Copy Editor Society wrote a column titled: A starting lineup of the day's best Opening Day front pages. (And my illustration of Muddy was used by James Molnar for the front page of the inside insert!) I am BEYOND honored!

To think that since I can remember, I have been drawing cartoon versions of everyone I know...

Thank you everyone at the Free Press!
And Thanks to Mike Miller for putting up with my sense of humor!

STADIUM SEATING THESE HERE TOLEDO STYLE

SEATS 223 and 224

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

We are careening into the end of March. I have nothing new to share in the terms of tips, new supplies, hide outs, big news, little news or anything. The end of March means that since I have not been contacted, I have been rejected by innumerable magazines and contests. I have been rejected by the best. I am not particularly fond of March. One class has finished, however. Another class has begun as I blaze my trail into a debt I will never, in one lifetime, be able to pay. I am required to take biology ::shudder:: and have landed in a nutrition class. The adviser said the class is what is best for "people like me." What is a "people like me"?

"PEOPLE LIKE YOU"

It turns out the other choice was BIOLOGY. As in REAL BIOLOGY. Then... I understood...

WHY ARE TERTIARY STRUCTURES SELFISH?
BECAUSE THE AMINO ACIDS ARE ALL WRAPPED UP IN THEMSELVES.

NUTRITION IT IS.

In nutrition, I have learned many things -- mostly that my rabbits eat better than I do.

I ACTUALLY TURNED THIS IN AND RECEIVED AN "A".

THESE HERE TOLEDO
It has been pretty quiet in these here Toledo, Ohio. I did see a mattress with box springs neatly lain on the sidewalk, but alas -- I could not snap a picture for posterity. Instead, I created a collage of South St. Clair Street to showcase our beautiful Parking Meter Cozies.





It looks as though someone slacked on a few of them. They are more like the pot holders we all made in 3rd grade all sewn together. Only in Toledo would someone slack on parking meter cozies.

TOLEDO POT HOLDERS

YOU ARE WELL ON YOUR WAY TO MAKING
YOUR OWN PARKING METER COZY!

THE PROJECT
The "BIG" March project became even bigger, to my surprise. I had so much fun working on it and really actually loved the individual that commissioned the piece. I can't tell you what it is yet... but stay tuned because I will be shoving it in all of your faces for the next year. I can't wait!! Is the anticipation growing? You know it is...

A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF ME
MAKING YOU LOOK AT MY WORK.

THE OTHER PROJECT
The other project (365) is humming right along. Again, one illustrator among some wildly talented photographers. I am finding that my image-a-day sometimes takes more than a-day. I have been trying carefully to push myself for at least one sketchbook doodle. Wouldn't you know it, some of the doodles turn out better than any pieces I've spent weeks toiling over. Perhaps more evidence that I think too much.

Anyhoo --





This image popped up when I Googled "Anyhoo."















Again, I am drawing a plethora of bunnies. This helps with the original 365 Bunnies project that I keep getting pulled from. Now, I have two 365 projects to get pulled from. Everything is pulling.

MY PURPOSE
The purpose under this purpose is to share the bunnies. These were born out of the 2nd 365 project but I add them to the 1st 365 Bunny project.

IT WAS A SLOW DAY

SAMMY DOING LIFE FOR CHEWING WIRES

I AM THE RABBIT

SITTING IN NEGATIVE SPACE

007

INTO OZ

DEATH WITH BUNNY

LANCE'S FAN

OVER THE MOON

OUT OF THE SHADOW

I AM NOT RIGHT
I don't know why, but I thought this was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

THE GREAT OUTDOORS
I went outside this week. After the initial shock to my system and exposure to the sun, I relaxed.

Sammy joined me while Russette glared at both of us from within the confines of the house.

MY NEIGHBOR

I AM NEIGHBORLY

END OF DAY
For the record, rabbits dream. They also snore.

HE CHASES CARS WHEN HE SLEEPS

THE END

NOT THAT I EVER DID