Jan
27
Today is day 26, of the create every day (CED) challenge 2014 – where I draw or paint or create something and post it every day of the year.
Feeling a bit more chipper today. I watched about 3 minutes of the Grammy’s and turned it off, because the sounds out of the TV sound exactly what I envision is whats going on in my body… honky-tonk VS injustice all on vocoder. So, here is a stupid comic.
Attack of the Vocoder
Jan
26
Today is day 25, of the create every day (CED) challenge 2014 – where I draw or paint or create something and post it every day of the year.
Feeling a bit better, but still feeling pretty horrible today so just something quick – sketch of Ada again. Oh yeah she has some junk today too. Time for some vitamins and rest!
Jan
24
Today is day 23, of the create every day (CED) challenge 2014 – where I draw or paint or create something and post it every day of the year.
I was feeling a bit better this week, chalking things up to allergies. That still might be but today I got hit HARD. So, quick sketch tonight. This about sums it up.
sick
Jan
23
Today is day 22, of the create every day (CED) challenge 2014 – where I draw or paint or create something and post it every day of the year.
Tonight I complete the series I have been working on, my little family Art Nouveau style. enjoy.
Lynley
Jan
22
Today is day 21, of the create every day (CED) challenge 2014 – where I draw or paint or create something and post it every day of the year. According to some – 21 day sof anything is a habit. Either breaking one or making one. Well today is a big day habit wise – I have successfully created and posted something every day for 21 days. Some better than others, but thats not the point.
So I had fun doing little girl yesterday all Art Nouveau Style… so yours truly gets a similar treatment tonight. Thinking about fleshing this all out into a family portrait sort of thing. More on that later.
Jan
20
Today is day 19, of the create every day (CED) challenge 2014 – where I draw or paint or create something and post it every day of the year.
A bit under the weather tonight – likely due to mountain cedar (juniper ash) allergies here in Texas. Or the plague. one of the two. Either way I did not have a ton of time to work up something really awesome tonight. I created something about how I feel about this tree, whom provides such sustenance for critters during harsh winter months when nothing bears fruit or is green – but deals such a terrible pollen that impacts a lot of us. its nothing great and thats fine. When I set out to do this I knew a few of these daily’s would be misses – but the point is to keep chugging along and do SOMETHING. so here it is.
stupid mountain cedar pollen
Jan
18
Today is day 17, in my create something every day challenge 2014. – I draw or paint something and post it every day of the year. I had no idea what to do tonight when Lynley suggested I draw my cousins dog. Not one for pet pictures I wasnt super excited about it but then I thought – What if Rusty’s dog got loose? I bet the dog would go to that shot bar in College Station and order up a whiskey.
Woof, Woof, Whiskey Please
So here it is.
Jan
17
Today is day 16, in my create something every day challenge 2014. – I draw or paint something and post it every day of the year. So far, so good although my hands are starting to hurt. The theme this month is “Past, Present, and Future”. -and speaking of hands, I did not do a hand study tonight, back tomorrow likely with that.
Tonight I did something ridiculous. I guess its just, well – my kind of night. (ouch, sorry). I found something in my truck, while going down a dirt road, headed to a rural location, near a body of water, with a six pack of beer, after I had my catfish dinner – and here it is. The infamous T-Pain / Conway mix tape.
winner winner, catfish dinner T-Pain / Conway mix tape.
Obviously this is a joke. the thought of such a tape is pure absurd. But if popular country music in 2013 has anything to day about it – this is the American Dream. NOTE TO NEW VIEWERS – this is NOT a critique of country music. I love all sorts of music. I really dont like whats coming out on modern country radio though and this is a spoof on that. OK back to your auto-tune and regularly scheduled programming.
ev
Jan
16
Today is day 15, in my create something every day challenge 2014. – I draw or paint something and post it every day of the year. January’s theme is past, present, and future.
Tonight I did an other hand study. “STUDY – dont worry about making art.” I plan on making a lot of art this year, best get to work on what hands look like making music.
here you go.
Hand Study – Synth
Jan
15
Today is day 14, in my create something every day challenge 2014. – I draw or paint something and post it every day of the year. January’s theme is past, present, and future.
Tonight I opted to just study – and sketch out a hand. I have been doing so much music related stuff lately I needed to work on my chops – fingers, hands -can be tricky. Its not really anything epic but I needed just to step back and not worry about “art” tonight. I think I have been trying to do too much with the every day stuff – which is fine but some concepts and paintings really need more time to work out.
So here it is, sketching day #14.
Hand Study with Guitar
Also this, from a sketchbook in 1999 – useful feedback from one of my drawing/painting professors. Forget which one. But the message sticks. See what I did there, kept with the theme…
study
Jan
14
Today is day 13, in my create something every day challenge 2014. – I draw or paint something and post it every day of the year. So far, so good heading out of day 13 of the challenge I am feeling pretty good about it. The theme this month is “Past, Present, and Future”.
Today’s date, January 13 – back in 1968 Johnny Cash performed at Folsom Prison, cutting “At Folsom Prison”. Obviously a very important performance and record. So tonight, Ile leave you with The Man in Black, Mr. Johnny Cash.
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash
Jan
12
Today is day 12 of the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014″. Where I draw something and post it every day. January’s Theme is “Past, Future, and present”
I couldn’t think of anything to draw today, but while doing dishes I got a hint of lemon scent as I was loading the dishwasher. I thought of my brother, affectionately known as “Lemon Juice” (you will have to ask him why). So here you go, bro.
Lemon Juice, Esquire
Hes also a lawyer and I didn’t get a model release form from him so catch this while you can before I get the cease and desist letter.
Jan
11
Today is day 10 of the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014″. Where I draw something and post it every day. January’s Theme is “Past, Future, and present”
This day, in 1949 vinyl records were introduced by RCA and Columbia. Elvis was recording his first RCA sessions in 1956. And, in 1976 Howlin Wolf (aka Chester Arthur Burnett) passed away. So tonight I spun some Howlin Wolf, mostly from the Sun recordings and went to work.
Howlin Wolf – built for comfort, not for speed
Jan
10
Today is day 9 of the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014″. Where I draw something and post it every day. January’s Theme is “Past, Future, and present”
This day, in 1836 Davy Crockett wrote one of his last letters, I think the very last to congress – stating his intentions to move to Tejas (it was still Tejas then, not a state – Texas did not win independence until later). A few days prior to his January 9 letter – he was having beers with friends in Memphis where he coined the well known idiom -“you may go to hell, and I will go to Texas” in reaction to that years elections. See, he wasn’t a big fan of Jackson, or VanBuren or their policies. And well he just lost his Congressional Seat in Tennessee.
I could work this one out a lot longer but I decided to stop at the concept. not has happy as I was with last nights but hey, win some lose some. Here you are, king of the wild Frontier. (also, 2 months from now, back then, he will die in the stand at the Alamo).
And I will go to Texas, Davy Crockett
Jan
9
Today is day 8 of the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014″. Where I draw something and post it every day. January’s Theme is “Past, Future, and present”
This day, in 1928 a man was born whom would change and mold music for many many years. He shares a birthday with the one and only Elvis Presley – he is Luther Perkins. the “guitar sound” of the man in black, Johnny Cash. Im not here to argue who influenced music more or whatever, but I can say with all confidence that this man is critical to rock and roll and country music. Boom-chicka-boom…
Boom Chicka Boom Chicka – Luther Perkins
I decided the last few create every day drawings were a bit too comic like so I went back to some painting roots, fired up Corel Painter X3 and worked a lot more painterly tonight. Way longer than I should for a simple create every day, but hey. Hone the skill, create, create, create. This is the goal.
Cheers
ev
Jan
5
Today is day 5 of the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014″. Where I draw something and post it every day. January’s Theme is “Past, Future, and present”
My Dad thinks he is a pirate. He is building a boat and uses nautical vernacular to explain everyday things. Maybe he was a swashbuckler in his past? Either way, in the near future is decade(s) long boat project will be done. Pirate away, ol’ Man.
My Dad is a Pirate
Jan
4
Today is day 4 of the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014″. Where I draw something and post it every day. January’s Theme is “Past, Future, and present”.
Tonight the Detroit Redwings play in my adopted home town of Dallas – facing the Stars. Im pretty excited about them being in town so I thought I would make today’s challenge about my favorite player, Pavel Datsyuk. I guess Im sticking with the theme still, since the game is in the future and I am excited about it.
Pavel Datsyuk
I went a little less painterly with the figure this time around, more of a screen print looking thing. I also went back to my old book about Michigan from day 1’s challenge. The page is appropriately titled “The Best of Detroit”.
Jan
4
Today is day 3 of the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014″. Where I draw something and post it every day. I bit off a bit more than I can chew AGAIN tonight, I would like to work on this a lot more…and obviously the background is stock image, but hey it works.
Sticking to the theme, “past, present and future” tonight I bring you, Hank Williams Sr. floating through space. Hank passed tragically 51 years ago this week, so I have been thinking about him and his music a lot this week. Ive actually had this idea in the hopper since about Tuesday. Not to get to existential about things, but his legacy lives on here on planet earth, big time. So many songs, so many folks influenced by his songs, and so on and so on. Like branches of a tree. That set aside… his music was transmitted by radio waves in the 40s and 50s, which would put those same waves somewhere like 50 light years away from planet earth (roughly, science folks if you can exact this one please do so). Anyhow, this got me thinking, Ol Hiram is floating out there somewhere in space, in wave form… and if there is anyone listening they will hear that BEFORE Disco, Vanilla Ice, and Luke Bryan – all things that bode well for us not getting destroyed in some plasma ray hate bomb from afar.
Hank Williams is floating in space
Anyway, Cheers. Installment 3 in the books.
Jan
3
Today is day 2 of the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014″. Where I draw something and post it every day. I bit off a bit more than I can chew tonight, I would like to work on this a lot more but I wanted to get the concept down, and done for the most part compositionally.
January’s theme is “past, present and future” Today I wanted to do something that meshes the past, and the present. So, here it is. Viking Nukes. I dreamed this up late afternoon thinking what if a giant Viking came into the present and saw what we did to our home? Axes flying, thats what.
Viking Nukes
Jan
1
Bring it on 2014!
Today I start the “Creative Everyday Challenge, 2014”. I have been meaning to start up a draw something and post it every day – type challenge for my new years goal and remembered seeing some posts last year from all sorts of folks who joined the challenge over at creativeeveryday.com so I started to join in with this community rather than go it alone.
So Much to Do, Detroit City
January’s theme is “past, present, and future”. Today I stuck with mostly past, grabbing an old book about Michigan, thumbing over to some info on Detroit and drawing a classic car over top. I think it turned out pretty ok. If I had more time I could work this up a little slicker, but thats not the point. The challenge for me is to get something created and go with it. Ile look back at some of the best over the year and re-work or put more time into them as I see fit.
So, enjoy “So much to do, Detroit City” CED2014 begins NOW!
