The Vermont Animation Festival

I just finished the illustration and poster design for the Vermont Animation Festival. It was an honor and a joy to be able to work on this project. I got to work with some of my favorite people and come up with something fun.

For more information you can visit the Vermont Animation Festival web site.

Some Summer Sketches

One of the places I like to take my animals studies students to is The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in New Hampshire. This has a great place to draw animals from observation.

One of the things I keep reminding my self about drawing is the need to keep drawing on a regular basis. Prior to the class, I was not drawing as much as I should and it took me a few days to get back into it. by the time we went to the science center, I was doing well again.

The sketches were done on-sight and the painting was completed later using Adobe Sketch on my iPad pro.

Bow Tie Guy of the Day: Otter

Otter (ˈätər)

When I told a good friend of mine about my crazy plan to do a Bow Tie Guy of the Day for the entire year, she told me I otter do this one. So here it is, the otter.

Small Exhibit of Work

This is appearing to be a week of announcements. For those that are interested I have a few small prints of my Vermont Bow Tie Guys on exhibit at Kingdom Imports. This wonderful auto mechanic shop shows work from local artists in their waiting room and they asked me to provide a few prints to hang. They are for sale if you want one.

Aside from the fact that I trust them implicitly (I have had a hard time finding mechanics I can trust), they listen to Julia. In the past we have had mechanics that would treat Julia has if she was a person that didn't know anything about cars because she was a woman. With Kingdom Imports it has been quite the opposite. If I am picking up a car and they have information about what we need to look out for and they start explaining it to me they stop after seeing the blank look on my face and say “I'd better just call Julia and let her know.” I am not a handy man and they know it.

You can see their Facebook page here.

35 of 100 Bow Ties in 100 Days or Less

Otter (ˈätər)

So last week I did the find you patronus on Facebook (I usually don't do thing s like this, but I couldn't resist). Mine came up as an otter. So I started working on the Otter Bow Tie Guy.

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