I usually put my Illustration Friday posts on my older/other  blog but I thought I should start to revive this one which is attached to my website.  I really just went for this one, it's a bit crazy, odd, it was what came to mind on short notice.

I decided to play with acrylic paints, This is the first. Acrylic on watercolor paper.

I'm running out of time since I need to finish this and ship it by next Tuesday and I have a ton of work in my schedule. So they will just get looser and quicker.. It's a good demand to have put on me anyway..! The top one took about 1 1/2 hours and the bottom was maybe 45 minutes.

I told someone I was doing this last night and she just said whooo?

Does It make you laugh or just say wow... that is really weird. Both I guess. What it's doing for me is letting me be completely silly and I'm not worrying about the final image. That's a good thing.

This is my friend Chip in the fez...... He just made a cd with his band, I love the cover shot of him in the fez so I just sort of glommed it off there... Here is the link to the music cdbaby.com/cd/thekwerks Enjoy!

Day 2 of  Why does the Owl make everyone laugh? I haven't answered the question yet.....

I'm finally getting to my Sketchbook Project Limited Edition. It's due in 15 days...I chose the theme Why did the owl make everyone laugh? Well why not? I'll post my progress daily here.

"The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini" I was particularly

taken with the profiles of many of the subjects. I loved breaking it down

to the expression and shape of nose, chin and brow..