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A Boy Kicking Cheese

October 17, 2009

This is a line illustration I did to illustrate one of my son’s limericks he wrote when he was younger and being home-schooled. It was quite funny and I decided to illustrate the theme of it just for kicks. This is what came out.

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Cathedrals Everywhere

April 4, 2008

When visiting Spain in March 2008, I was visually reminded of how many cathedrals there are in that country and in the rest of Europe. This was a sketch of just one of the many we visited while in Barcelona, Valencia and Granada. The most impressive and memorable was the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, by [...]

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Moorish Design Influence

April 4, 2008

This sketch was done at La Lonja, a castle from the 15th century that housed the silk merchant trade in Valencia, Spain. The design is definitely organic, and carved from stone. It appears on the side of an 8-sided star shaped fountain, pictured below.

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Sketches of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain

April 4, 2008

Here are some additional sketches I did while in Spain last month. The first is a window detail on the side of the place of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.

This next one is a sketch of one of the older parts of the Alhambra… the castle or fortress section used to defend the original [...]

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Back from España

April 1, 2008

Sorry for the recent silence. I took a trip to Spain, and was almost completely off-line and unplugged from most technology and the Internet! I spent 1-hour online between March 20, and 31st. It’s amazing what happens when you do this. Life slows down. You can actually think about things and reflect. I read two [...]

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Old Man Illustration

October 12, 2007

I think I was looking through some Pen and Ink drawing books I have, and decided to try my hand at a pen and ink sketch of a guy in one of the books. This was probably 20 to 25 years ago. It probably took me about 2-3 minutes to sketch. That’s the whole idea… [...]

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Crazy Car Sketch

April 19, 2007

I sketched this image of a crazy cartoony car while flying from Chicago to Denver. Not sure what it means. Got any ideas?

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Palm Sunday Musings

April 1, 2007

This morning I heard a sermon by Dr. Greg Waybright, at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park. It was based upon the Gospel of Luke chapter 19, verses 1-10. It was the story of a Jew named Zachaeus, and how he met Jesus, basically one week before Jesus’ death.
Here are my sermon notes in case [...]

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Costa Rica – Day One

January 26, 2007

We made it to Costa Rica – safe and sound!
3:45AM
The day started at 3:45 AM, getting up and packing the van. Deb drove me to pick up two other guys, Eddie Alexander and Pat Italia. We met the rest of the team at 5:30 AM at the U.S. Airways ticketing area of Terminal 2. After [...]

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Automotive Watercolor

October 24, 2006

Anybody who knows me knows I like old cars. I took a photo of this junked 1967 Chevy Impala back in the 70’s on a downtown Chicago street. Later on in the 1980’s, I used that photo as a foundation drawing/sketch for this watercolor study, done as an assignment for my watercolor class at the [...]

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