Pokémon GO! Update

By on Feb 13, 2017

It has been a little while since I posted one of these. I spent all Friday coding so my head was splitting. I took off a little early and the weather was nice so I went and did some Pokémoning. It was a nice park with a Onyx nest. There were huge signs nailed to the trees cautioning people of thin ice. I saw at least 20 people just out wandering around on the ice. I should also mention the temperature was around 40º.Milwaukee’s Best PrinterQuality Online Printing

Another Quiet Saturday Morning

By on Feb 7, 2017

Every once in a while the stars align and I get a Saturday morning to draw. The girls were content with their over-sized cinnamon rolls and new animated feature so I was able to scribble out a quick sketch. We were at the Zoo the other day and they had a new cardinal. It was a little grey guy the likes of which I had never seen. It is smaller and more angular than the typical cardinal. I couldn’t remember what kind it was or where it was from but while trying to find it I did find some neat pictures of grey cardinals.While in school I took a technical illustration class. It was a good experience because it helped me develop my observation skills. Just taking the time to focus on every detail of the subject. Trying to figure out what makes it unique before even starting to draw. I had a professor who would talk about how labeling things makes us lazy. When you look at a chair, you...

Faulty Memories

By on Jan 31, 2017

When I started college, I was working at a big department store in their shoe department. I worked really early hours starting around 3am. I had several radios positioned throughout the stock room all tuned to the local indy station. 3am wasn’t the busiest time for the DJs so I would often call in and they would play my requests. I would win free tickets to shows almost weekly until they put a rule in place saying you could only win once a month.Those were the early days of craft breweries. One local brewery that made a hard push was Henry Weinhard’s. Henry Weinhard’s had a Red Lager. I was not of age but even then the independent nature of the brewery appealed to me. They expanded their advertising to include a Root Beer. The root beer was from the days of prohibition. Weinhard’s started brewing it to keep the brewery from going under. Being that...

Paper Toys

By on Nov 8, 2016

As I mentioned before, we are doing some papercraft. Origami, but not so traditional. I had a phase where I made alot of paper toys. As a joke I once folded 50 chickens, packed them into a box and sent them without a return address. I never heard how they turned out and there was never a news story about suspicious boxes so I can only assume the people who received the boxes full of chickens just stood scratching their heads wondering what exactly was going on. By the way, if you received one of the boxes…SURPRISE! It was a fun thing. Small communities were created on the internet. Artists would collaborate and even release “special” and “limited” editions. I still have a folder on my desktop full of jpgs and pdfs. I made a few of my own designs but I never uploaded them or directly participated in the forums. I was more of a lurker.And then I was walking...

Origami

By on Nov 2, 2016

Here it is. Our first attempt at origami. I thought we’d go traditional for our first ones. Here are our cranes. A little rough but not bad.Milwaukee PrintOnline Calendars

Halloween 2016 Has Come and Gone…

By on Nov 1, 2016

Another year of Tricks or Treats has passed. We all had a wonderful day. We invite over some family and fiends and spend the day carving pumpkins, drinking pumpkin beer and eating pizza. This year was one of our best. We didn’t have as many people as usual and tried to cut down on some of the other stress. Instead of running and picking up pizza mid-afternoon, we picked up a couple Papa Murphy’s pizzas and made them when we were ready. We weren’t able to make pumpkin seeds but all the kids painted their pumpkins and seeds were in short supply anyway.After spending a few hours carving pumpkins and eating pizza we all got dressed-up and went trick or treating. The girls all dressed up as kitty-witches. Not cats and not witches’ cats but black cats that are also witches. My wife went as a black cat, sans witch. I dressed up as Finn the Human from Adventure Time. We...