Cheers! I was out and about stumbling this morning and ran across a fellow blogger running an awesome contest that uses ArtPad.  Woohooo.. I found a new toy to check out!

This is a simple contest similar to the contest I won on Station Atomica with his Entre-card Anti Contest.  Quick drawings and just plain old fun, with a bonus at the end. I did not even know there were credits involved! Plain old fun - no sign up for this, write this, do this, dance upside down, bowl between your partners legs or have a chinese fire drill!

This is a spongebob that I morphed into a picture from Cabo San Lucas - at the very tip of the penisula! I did this in charcoals and had to add the bottle of Bacardi for good cheer!

You made me cry, you told me lies
But I cant stand to say goodbye
Mama, Im coming home
I could be right, I could be wrong
Hurts so bad, its been so long
Mama, Im coming home!

This was a gift for the little girl I never had! Sarah! How would we all feel if our daughter called you and said.. Mama, I’m coming home……and she brought home someone like the famed Ozzy? What a story that is, I watched Dee Snyder’s wife talking about when she brought him home. What a fun program to watch.  It doesn’t always turn out bad!

Sarah’s a rocker - that’s for sure, at the great old age of 11, she know’s what good rock music is! I love seeing when younger kids get into the heart of rock ~n~ roll, that my generation grew up with.  I enjoy seeing the spark of interest in the old albums that have been tucked away into the attic and they start digging through them.  My son, Jake has been playing guitar for two years now - and he isn’t playing all the new stuff, he is concentrating on Grand Funk, Aerosmith and some I have never heard of even from my era. 

I took a light box to get the characters correctly proportioned on this sketch for Sarah’s birthday.  Having to take and manipulate the pictures via scanning and printing to get them sized correctly so they would fit into one another like a puzzle piece.  Done in Woodless Graphite - 97-4B.

February 26, 1985 - I am going with Twenty minutes with past grammy winners… it came to me when I  ran across a blog that had referenced Led Zepplin and it’s all about the music throwing me right back into my second year in high school.  Student lounge, late passes, smoking lounge and hanging out and learning to drive. 

I decided to look up my past in rock history.  Grammy = service mark in the recording arts and sciences.  If someone asked me to say off the top of my head who won, the lifetime achievement award in 1985 - I would never had uttered Chuck Berry.  We all know Chuck Berry, foot out front and a dance that’s impossible to most. 

Best New Artist - 1985 Grammy went to Cyndi Lauper

It’s true,  girls just wanna have fun.. ! I guess I was having a scad of fun, I certainly remember the high pitched sound and the dancing in circles.   How about Tina Turner winning Best Record for “What’s love got to do with it?”

I collage’d  these three artists together for your day in Grammy history, from a sharpened number two school pencil, I ran them together, with just a touch of smudging with only my pinky finger.

Do you remember growing up and having Saturday Chores, when all you wanted to do was watch cartoons?

I do, but it was my sister who got to do the chores, I got to watch her and cartoons! (me-sticking my tongue out)

Well, now that I have grown up and have a home of my own, those chores need to be done regardless of what cartoons are on.

I set out one Saturday morning to clean the stairwell that leads to our basement. It gets alot of traffic, this is known as “The Bat Cave” and my batty husband spends the majority of his winter down there. Well, needless to say, with the nitty gritty dirty salty dusty residue that collects on the shelves and the walls. I had pulled all the junk out of there, and was all set to clean it.

I realized, I didn’t want to clean it, it needed something else. So, out came the paints and five hours later, we had Buck’s Beach. This was done in all Acrylic Craft Paints, I put some real sand in the paint to give it a bit of texture, as if you are looking out at a beach. Done on the 3 walls that encase the stairway, it gives a brighter look to the “Bat Cave”

So, when you are not up to cleaning.. I say paint it!

I also ran across a new RSS Feed Site today, you may all want to check it out!

http://www.rsshugger.com

~ Soul to Soul

Scarlett was born around Thanksgiving, and who of the male pursuasion is not “Thankful” for that! I honestly have not had her on my radar, but some friendly folk over at Bloggeries were tossing thier ideas into the artistic arena, so boys.. this is for you!

Thanks for the idea! I sat down, google imaged Scarlett Johansson, and couldn’t even get the name correct.. I need to flip on the tube a little more often and see who’s hot and who’s not.  Is Mick Jagger still hot?

I am an old rocker who worked for two lads in the 80’s that I called Cheech and Chong, at 5 o’clock the door to their office would open, and pot smoke would billow out in wafts of fluffly scented clouds.

 So, my knowledge on Scarlett is not truly up to par, I shall admit.  I am stuck in the 70’s and early 80’s. 

 This is my twelve minutes with Scarlett..I hope you all find enjoyment out of it.. she is truly a beauty..the lips are like the big blossoms on peonies.. her curves remind me of Marliyn Monroe!

 I will now have to go research this honey of 2008 and find out a little bit more about her.  The sketch was done on regular copy paper with a Generals Layout/Ebony Pencil # 555, it is not cleaned up or refined.. this was a timed venture.. How many of you would like to spend 12 minutes with Scarlett?

~ Soul to Soul