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Tag Archives: on the road
save the doodles, ice cream edition
And … we’re back. Cartoon Shark Week is coming soon (art is done, edits are not), but we can always rely on our doodles to entertain us every day and keep our creative vision keen and sharp. Let’s save the … Continue reading
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Tagged doodle, drawing, drawing tools, on the road, writing
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real sharks for shark cartooning
I haven’t drawn the Pajama Shark in the last few days*, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about him, and Friendly Shark characters in general. And one of the basic approaches to doing animal characters in comics and … Continue reading
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Tagged animals and nature, on the road, photography, sharks, writing
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on finding a dunkleosteous
Everybody who grew up in Cleveland, as I did, knows the Dunkleosteous. He’s the giant Devonian predator fish that is pretty much the official giant Devonian predators fish of the city. We all grew up visiting him at the Museum … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, around the studio, on the road, photography, writing
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social media shark
A social media shark made his first appearance yesterday on my Instagram: IKEA shark in its native habitat. #shark #sharks #toy #toys #stuffedanimal #yellow #bag #pillow #store #ikea #ikeashark #phonecamera #ipodtouch And then he popped up, in a different pose, on my personal Facebook in a shout out to his place of … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, internet, on the road, photography, writing
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animal week: the amur tiger
An Amur (or Siberian) Tiger on a rainy summer day in the American Midwest. This guy spent most of the time we spent in the Rosebrough Tiger Passage (a deluxe and stimulating state of the art tiger habitat) napping in … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, on the road, photography, writing
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eagle, in the rain, through the willows, at the wolf lodge
Spent last Friday at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo photographing the denizens. So this week is Animal Week here at the blog, with lots of animal portraits, fun animal facts, and thoughts about animal characters in comics. (For photo geeks, all … Continue reading
jack in the pulpit (two stages)
Two Jacks-in-the-Pulpit* at different stages of development, side by side at the Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River Reservation last weekend. *Jack-in-the Pulpits? I am unsure of the correct plural, so I used the one I thought looked cooler. (For camera geeks: … Continue reading
weiner(mobile) in motion
What a difference a week makes, especially in the Midwest in the early spring. Just last Friday, I was trying to photograph the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile. With a phone camera. From a moving car. In a blizzard. I will photograph … Continue reading
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Tagged cars and car spotting, found art, on the road, photography, writing
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this is not a picture of detroit, michigan
It happened again for the second year in a row. I was in Chicago (Illinois) for the Chicago Auto Show today, and I took this particular picture with my smartphone. It’s a perfectly conventional view of the Buick show stand, as … Continue reading
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Tagged cars and car spotting, gadgets and technology, on the road, photography, writing
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mammoth for sale
Do a lot of people just walk down the street with a spare 900 bucks burning holes in their pockets, see this display in a jewelry store window, and say to themselves “You know, what I really need today is … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, on the road, photography, writing
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