Tim Paul - Whatever

Was a busy day, and so I drew this while at the Society of Illustrators Happy Hour Trivia night. On the left, Sam Wolfe Connely, on the right, a banana hammer. Don't ask. 

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Mulder and Scully

Need I say more?

Jeanine Henderson—Odd Couple and Mermaids

I love yesterday's "Odd Couple" theme—so even though I'm late, had to post mine! My best friend and I are kind of an odd couple—totally love costume-making, parading, and getting ourselves into crazy fun. This sketch is weirdly inspired by real life...

And that got me thinking (naturally) of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade...4 months till this year's! So here's a 2nd sketch for today's open love theme...

Alice Stanne - Bleeding Hearts

Cynthia Sheppard - Just a Key

Just a key. A thing that may unlock something else, but who knows what?

Challenge #8 for Thursday Feb. 21st

Our 8th Challenge  comes courtesy of Carly Mazur

 The subject is:  "Mating Rituals"

Jeffrey Alan Love - Dragons

From Smaug to Kilgharrah, the dragon who sleeps in chains beneath Camelot, I have always loved dragons.

Tara Jacoby - Odd Couple

My take on Grant Wood's "American Gothic."

Marc Scheff - Odd Couple

Scott Murphy - Odd Couple

Here's my "Odd Couple," the bearded lady and the worlds smallest man.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Odd Couple

Here's one of my favorite "Odd Couples" Don Quijote and Sancho Panza.

Tara Jacoby - Tainted Love

Kristina Carroll - Odd Couple

Even grumpy old Bridge-Trolls deserve a Valentine.

Scott Brundage- Odd Couple and Tainted Love

Odd Couple

Tainted Love*

*all apologies to Ricardo. I completely forgot about your earlier stripper butt. It's a fine butt. 

Carly Janine Mazur - Opposites Attract

7"x5" acrylic and pen on masonite

Opposites attract, like, you know, polar opposites. Hahaha, ha... magnets... how do they work...

Seems like I misremembered the theme for today, whoops! I'll remedy that tomorrow.

Cynthia Sheppard - Odd Couple

Tim Paul - Odd Couple

I don't think I will be able to finish this today, have to run out and take care of some things, and help a friend, which will probably run late into the evening. So I thought I would post what I have done so far.

Once again, more animals. I'm really enjoying these animals I've been doing. It's new to me.

Narciso Espiritu - Freestyle 3

I've been having a rough couple days. I think I have a creative block or something. Still trying to burn through it, so I drew what came easiest to me. This is Caution, a character influenced from one Halloween night several years ago. Probably even long before that. Like when I was thirteen. Anyway, there's a couple of images of him on my website.

Scott Brundage-Freestyle Sunday

One long weekend and I'm three days behind. Here are some stream of consciousness and subway doodles for you.

Jeffrey Alan Love - The Odd Couple

Today's theme brought to mind Beauty and the Beast to me.  I love fairy tales that retain their sense of menace, their dark edge, rather than the polished and watered-down versions I see so much now. 

Tim Paul - Tainted Love

Still trying to catch up. Here is some Tainted Love.

Marc Scheff - Super Love

I realize I must have been inspired by Jeffrey's post. As mentioned in a previous post, I just bought some acrylics and am experimenting with this new (to me) media. Dry on dry, dry on wet, wet on wet, and some ink pens. And I love superheroes. So much, I even enjoyed the Fantastic Four, both movies.

Chris O'Neill - My Love: 2 of 3

Sarah had a vehicle in high school. An old brown truck that was prone to backfiring. She made it "girly" by putting a pink fuzzy leopard print thing on the steering wheel and hanging necklaces and her sunglasses from the rear view mirror. I'd often hitch a ride home with her after school.

- CHRIS

Scott Murphy - Mountain Love

4"x5.25" Oil on board

I've always had a huge love for mountains. I find them to be beautiful and majestic and extreme and terrifying. I think If I lived in an area with more mountains I would certainly have been a mountain climber even though I'm afraid of most heights. Still, I've climbed Mount Washington in New Hampshire, and made an attempt at Galdhøpiggen, the tallest mountain in Norway (unfortunately to be thwarted by weather). Someday I hope to spend some time in the alps and out west in the rockies. In a perfect world, I would live amongst them and paint them every day.

There is also a heart hidden in there.

Sarah Gay - Love series

"It was first grade

His name was Jacob.

He was the smelly kid

and he loved me.

He gave me a .25 cent ring.

He was my first grade boyfriend."

"We snuck away from our desks

We hid in the coat rack

Jacob had a tiny hole

in his pants.

He showed me something.

I was startled. "

"We shared our first kiss

On the fuzziest carpeted steps

I had ever sat on."

My mother, cousins, and I ca. 1989

Kristina Carroll - Spooning

It's past the halfway mark- time to break out the bad puns!

Carly Janine Mazur - Eat Me!

5"x7" acrylic on masonite, with yummy chocolates

It's been a few days since Valentine's. The last bits of candy are trickling away, and those left just screaming "Eat me!"

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- I Love my dog

This my dog Sasha, she can be a real butt head sometimes. But I still love her.

Jeffrey Alan Love - Capes

I know that there are many rational explanations as to why you shouldn't wear a cape (either as a superhero or a normal everyday person) but I still love them.

Challenge #7 for Tuesday Feb. 19th

Our 7th Challenge  comes courtesy of Kristina Carroll

The subject is:  "The Odd Couple"

Scott Murphy - Free Sunday

Well we went out and did some karaoke tonight since it was a holiday Sunday. So here's a super quick sketch of our stuffed piranha I did before we left.

Kristina Carroll - Freestyle Sunday

We have a colonial graveyard in the Arboretum near our house. I love the style of gravestones from this era and often walk through the area in the morning. Here's a quick sketch from one.

Alice Stanne - Free Style Sunday

I bought a brand new sketchbook over the weekend and decided to christen the first page today. There's always the struggle of what goes on that initial page to make it the best sketchbook ever, so I just decided to express the idea with the simple phrase first page jitters.

Ricardo Lopez Ortiz- Freestyle Sunday

My lovely girlfriend on the subway ride back from work. I think I captured her exhaustion :)

Chris O'Neill - My Love: 1 of 3

Here's Image 1 of 3 of my autobiographical "LOVE" series. When Sarah & I met junior year of high school, I was this guy. Dyed hair, hoodie, weird blue sunglasses, and NIN blaring in my headphones. Can't imagine what she saw in me!

- CHRIS

Chris O'Neill - Tainted Love

So... This last week was totally a bust... Sorry about that! ANYWAY... here's yesterday's.

Tainted Love = Tainted Meat

 .....Or something....

- CHRIS

Jeanine Henderson—Free style Sunday

Have had this drawing half-done for weeks, so finally got around to finishing and starting to ink it today—so sharing as my freestyle Sunday post

Tim Paul - Love Series complete

So, I really fell behind, and now I'm trying to catch up. We had a challenge of a three part autobiographical series leading up to Valentines day. I did my first one, but I really wasn't happy with the execution. So I redid it along with the other two.

I often joke that me and my husband meet the old fashioned way. At a bar on dollar drink night. We had both seen each other, and thought each other cute. But it was me that made the move. I had copies of a self published zine comic with me, that I was going to give to a friend who didn't show up. So I wrote my number on the back, and while he was inline to get a drink, I went up, and said:

"Hi, I just want to say, I think your cute, and me and my friends are heading out, but here are copies of a comic I write and draw. Read them if you like them, call me, my numbers on the back."

He stopped me from leaving, and asked me what my name was. I told him it was Tim, and asked him what his was. When he told me it was also Tim, I asked what his last name was.
Thankfully it wasn't the same as mine.

So I said, "Well, if anything, this is probably the weirdest pick up you've ever gotten."

"No" he said, "It's the best I've ever gotten."

"Well, on that good note, I'm going to go!"

Right from the start, our relationship was marked with a lot of similarities. Such as I was the only other person his friends had heard say "Got my Christmas Goose Early!" something Tim would say all the time, when someone would touch his butt. Or that we both liked Emmett Otters Jug band Christmas.

One morning, after Tim had spent the night, we went out for breakfast, and on the way home the temperature dropped an it started to rain, making us wet and chilled. When we got back to my place, we both collapsed on the bed. A few seconds later, at the same time, we both said. "hmmmmm cozy" like Homer Simpsons would. Then a few seconds later we both said, "Creepy". We have always said the same thing at the same time, often with the same inflection of tone.

We got married 9 years ago, in what we call our Mass Cult Wedding. Tim entered a contest the W Hotel in Chicago was having, where they wanted 5 couples, straight or gay, come down and get married on the spot. The catch being that one half of the couple wouldn't know, and the other would propose on the spot, if the other half said yes, get married right there! All 5 couples said yes, and we all went upstairs and got cleaned up, made over and dressed.

It was suspossed to be on Valentines Day, but the upper Hotel Management didn't want to give free rooms on what is one of their busiest days, so we had to do it on the 13th. Friday the 13th.

So we got married on Friday the 13th. 

If it's not a little off or weird or against tradition, it doesn't seem to be right for us. 

Scott Brundage- Valentine's Spoils

Stuck in a car for 8 hours, Friday, on my way to VT, had to draw on my ipad in the car.

Luckily, my lady had a good seven pounds of chocolates from her students. I appropriated them all for myself.

Jeffrey Alan Love - Tainted Love Two Times

I missed the deadline yesterday, so here's two for today.  I've noticed before that acrylic tends to stick to itself when I paint on facing pages of sketchbooks.  For the "tainted love" theme I thought it would be fun to paint a man and woman on facing pages, perhaps lovers, separated when the sketchbook is open, together when it is closed and we can't see them.  A secret love.  But when they are pulled apart the acrylic rips and pulls at itself, and wounds them.