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