Aloha

Originally a photo I took of a hibiscus flower that was later manipulated and colored.  Then I decided to play some more and created this beautiful tropical lei.  Welcome to the islands.  Prints of the individual flowers are available for purchase on Imagekind (link at right).

A Night At DV8 Volumes Nine & Ten

Just realized that todays two covers have two different interpretations of curly or wavy hair.  The first one a little more stylized perhaps.

Lightning McQueen Finds A Friend

I put this together last year for my nephew who loves Cars and Lightning McQueen in particular.  The picture of  McQueen I scanned from some materials I had on hand and the image of my nephew came from my grandfather's funeral where Nick provided some comic relief.  Everything just sort of came together on this one.  His pose was perfect.  The light source was properly positioned.  The stars aligned.

Living the Wild Life

While sitting tapping away at my keyboard on Tuesday, Mother Nature sent me a guest.  It came in the form of a racoon just outside the sliding glass doors into the backyard where I was cat-sitting.  By the time I ran to the garage to get my camera out of the car, he had wandered off.  I threw some bread crumbs outside (which I know I shouldn't do) in the hopes that he would return which he did about an hour later.

I have photographed this racoon (or one of his relatives) before.  The house is bordered on two sides by nature preserve and there's only one house on the other side before more nature preserve so there is an abundance of wildlife to see.  In the past we've seen bobcats, alligators, otters, herds of frogs, snakes, spiders the size of your hand, armadillos, and all kinds of birds.

A Night At DV8 Volumes Seven & Eight

Rambling

Yikes.  I spent all day doing yard work for someone (and getting paid) in the blistering Florida sun.  Today my sadly out of shape body aches and I'm slightly sunburnt.  The latter I wouldn't mind, I would like a tan, but since i was wearing a tshirt all day I now have that ever stylish farmer tan look.  I hear it's all the rage in Paris and Milan this season.  At least I managed to go without my sunglasses all day so I don't have that beautiful earpiece line across each side of my head.  Today I plan to lounge in the pool and relax and possibly do a little drawing later on.  I hope you all have a relaxing and creative day as well.

Disney-MGM Studios Drawings

A couple of rough drawings today from what is now Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World.

Sign near the Great Movie Ride leading to the Backlot.

Restrooms near the park entrance on Hollywood Boulevard.