The (Almost) Twelve Days of Christmas & Harry Potter

Howdy Folks, hope that you are all doing well, and having an excellent Holiday Season, so far. Sorry about the hiatus for about a month, but schooling tends to get in the way of that sometimes. Anyways, I have been working on a little series for the Christmas season entitled the 12 days of Christmas. I know what you folks are thinking: "boy that's an original idea," in a snarky and sarcastic way. Oh well, I've come up with something I think you kind readers might enjoy. While you folks are waiting for that, here's a hand-drawn slide show that I did for a music class recently. It was about the scores and the composers of the Harry Potter film series. It might not be my best work, but I hope that you enjoy it.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Happy Holidays!

Eye of Newt & Toe of Frog

The Baba Yaga wish you readers a

HAPPY HALLOWE'EN!

Also, there's a new short story written by yours truly. It will be on its own page, just explore the various pages to the right hand side and you should find it. A sort of behind the scenes page which tells of the inspiration to the story will be up momentarily, but Happy All Hallow's Eve, folks!

Come One, Come All!

On this Hallowe'en eve, I am announcing that tomorrow I will be posting a story.

It will be a faerie tale...

A real Faerie Tale.

Are you ready to hear a story?

The Good Doctor

Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Beware the BLACK CAT!

Note: As a little companion piece, here is a video of gala that I had attended a week ago. Before you kind readers take a gander at this video, here's a bit of a back story:

One of the artists who submitted some amazing pieces of work had a stroke about a month ago and some other artists, who also submitted great pieces, as well, are basically sending their "get well soon" greetings to the artist, Jody Franklin, while he is recovering.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs



Count Vierme von Sange



Two weeks & a Day to go...

Cheers,

A. Taylor

More drawings to come.

Litte Nemo

I know that everyone and their brother has posted something about this cartoon that appeared on Google today, but I thought that it was an interesting way to commemorate Winsor McCay, one of my favorite cartoonists. I couldn't resist posting this because it is just simply a great piece of art.

Here's the comic that coincided with the Google doodle for today:

Yep, this is officially my favorite Google Doodle, ever.

More doodles (that are actually my own) to come.

Art for SALE!

Hiya Folks, Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while and these two pictures, as well as the Holmes & the Hound picture, are, more or less, my excuse for not posting anything in quite some time. These pictures are for an exhibiton held at the Athens of Indiana Arts Studio & Gallery.

The first picture out of this post is titled "A Very Merry Unbirthday" and is currently for sale for $50, as well as the comic called "The Great Orator" (you kind readers might notice that it was a quick sketch a couple of posts ago, but now in COLOR). To my utter surprise, though, "The Great Orator" has already been sold off and is currently on its merry way to a good home. The "Holmes & The Hound" picture is for $100 at the Gallery if anyone is interested, all the pictures are, approximately, 8" by 10". It was an honor to submit some pieces to this tremendous event for this utterly awesome gallery.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Thanks to Sharon Gerow, Nina Cunnigham, and the other great friends that helped me get up off my lazy bum to submit these pieces.

The Great Orator

Here's a comic that I quickly drew up when I was bored one day. I had a ball coming up with this bombastic, over-dramatic character. This was drawn with waterproof ink and a dip pen. I should have a good, and painted, version of this little comic.

Here's a darker copy in case the previous wasn't that legible.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

HAPPY 100th BLOG POST, EVERYBODY!

Holmes & The Hound

Howdy folks, sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I have recently been working on a series of drawings and paintings for an art show that is coming up in October. This is one of the pictures that I've been working on entitled "Holmes & The Hound," which is a bit of a fun drawing based on The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was drawn with a Micron pen (point 01) and was "painted" using an inkwash technique, using both waterproof and regular ink. I then used a dip pen and waterproof ink to write out the text on the parchment which tells the story of the Hound of the Baskervilles. I used white acrylic paint to do a bit of fog and other effects. I had a great time illustrating this picture and hopefully you great folks will find this in a frame pretty soon.

There will be more drawings and I shall hopefully post them in good time.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

The Brandybard Balloon

I have been fiddling with the creation of a sort of icon for this blog, if there would ever be on. I was doodling one day and came up with this ink-black balloon.

Then I went onto a website called picmonkey and played around with it further.

This was the "final result," just not quite sure what to do with it, really. It's merely an idea for the time being.

The Thom(p)sons & Snowy (Milou)

These were drawn with a dip pen and waterproof ink.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

The Adventures of Tintin

When I was bored one day, actually when I had a bought of writer's block on a paper I was writing, I got out some of my drawing things and began doodling. The outcome of that bought of boredom was this collection of small portraits of one of my favorite comics, Tintin.

Here is the good Professor Calculus.

The world-weary Captain Archibald Haddock

Here are the heros of the piece: Tintin & Snowy (Milou).

These were drawn with a dip pen and waterproof ink (they might even be watercolor'd one of these days).

Cheers,

A. Taylor



The Dapper Octopus Finale

Right-o, since I haven't corresponded to you folks in some time, I thought that I ought to post this particular work. In the previous post I only had the ink'd bit of it finished, but now, as you can see, it is now in color. This was finished using watercolor paint and some regular ink for the umbrella and the bowler hat.

There's a preview of some doodles to come.

Welcome To Slumberland

Right-o, here is the next article about an artist who I admire,

Mister Winsor McCay.

Thanks, again, to Sharon Gerow & Nina Cunningham for there tremendous help!

Good Afternoon

This amiably dapper octopus is a design that a friend of mine asked me to do. I'm going to add some color on here soon, but for the time being, here is the pen and ink version of the drawing. The was first drawn in pencil then drawn with a black Micron pen (point 01). Hope to have some more doodles up here soon.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Good Ol' Fashioned Adverts

These were taken at the Auburn Cord Duesenburg Museum in Auburn, Indiana. I just thought these were interesting. I'll have some actual drawing work up here sometime in the near future (maybe some motorcars?).

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Mary's Critical Times

My sister asked me a couple of weeks ago to create a banner for her blog entitled Mary's Critical Times. She also asked me to incorporate something about film around it so I picked out some of the best films and TV shows and just sort of mixed everything in. The list of films Incorporated into the banner, if you would like to check them out, are as follows:

Hugo (2011) or Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902)

Doctor Who (1963-present)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Harry Potter Series (both the movies and the books)

This banner was drawn with a variety of mediums. I drew the moon and the rocket along with the stars with waterproof ink and a dip pen. I then used regular ink to create the inkwash effect. I drew the letters with blue waterproof ink and a dip pen and the red letters I drew with red waterproof Sharpie pen. After that was dry I then used just water, while some of the blue ink was still wet, and then brushed it around the letters for another inkwash effect and then I drew the paisley marks with a blue Sharpie pen. I then drew the rest of it with a Micron pen (01 point) and then used watercolors to color the rest of it (save for the Tardis, which was colored with a blue Sharpie pen).

Here is the edited version:

Cheers,

A. Taylor

1916 Rauch & Lang

I know that I have said this before, but I just love the clucky kind of quality to these old motorcars and thought that this was a marvelous little vehicle.

When my family went to the Auburn Museum we found this interesting little motorcar. This is actually one of the first electric cars, which I thought was really neat.

One the world sort of established that they could make these great automobiles, various companies tried to establish what sort of engine would work the best: electric, steam, or gas, just to name off the main types. Although the electric engine worked like a dream, there were slight problems when it came down to actually operating the motorcar.

Look Ma, no hands. This car actually operates with a literal backseat driver. That sort of stick that is at the left hand side is where the driver would steer the vehicle. This was common to most early motorcars, although by 1916 most motorcars had regular steering wheels. Sorry about the odd ghost of the reflection off of the glass.

 Since the car also had to carry both its passengers and a huge battery to power it, the motorcar went very slow down the road. So, this particular motorcar was quite ahead of its time, it was just too inconvenient for many modern motorists that had become accustomed to the reliable internal combustion engine. This was soon taken off of the shelves and was a mere footnote in panels of motoring history.

Sorry about this being a bit blurry.

I thought that it was still a brilliant little car.

More Great Motorcars

1929 Cord

Auburn (1930's, I cannot recall the exact year)

1951 Jaguar

(sorry the 2nd picture is a bit blurry)

A 1904 Auburn, the earliest recorded Auburn that was in production.