The Day that Monday Ran Away *Updated*

When I was a kid I had a book called 'The Day that Monday Ran Away' by Robert Heit & Joseph Veno . It was wonderfully psychadelic and of it's time, the images stay in my head even today. The story was that Monday got fed up with everyone hating him and decided to leave, so Sunday was left holding the bag and Tuesday got woken up much earlier than he expected.
 Veno's artwork was ALL about the colour. So I sampled his colours directly.

I was somewhat sad to see when I did a Google search on this book that it only had a handful of entries ( almost none of them relevant ) and that THIS post was one of them ( along with a bunch of my other DrawBridge posts)! We think that the Internet preserves everything, but wonderful things get lost all the time.

5/10/11 Edited to add the name of the Illustrator , one Joseph Veno of Boston.

Monday

Monday's theme is MONDAY!

Smile - Nikolai Dante

Y'know I could pretend that I just drew this, but it's actually the layout for a Dante cover I'm working on right now. Who else could I draw with a subject like 'smile' anyway?

Because it's Friday the Theme is...

SMILE

Jackie Cooper 1922–2011

Yes, he was Perry White.
But he was also Jim Hawkins in the first sound version of Treasure Island.

Playing Games - Nintendo

The Nintendo DS is a great little machine isn't it?

Drawn in Crowquill, then toned with Copics, photographed with my phone, tinted in photoshop.

Playing games

Yep

Hyrdra

Keepin it loose

Hydra - freestyle

I just started drawing randomly and tried to fix it as I inked. It kind of works , but isn't as planned as my normal inked drawings would be.

Heracles vs the Lernaen Hydra

In the swamps of Lerna, during the age of heroes, there lived a great and poisonous serpent, a monstrous offspring of the union of Typhon and Echidna. The destruction of this beast, called the Lernaen Hydra,  became the second Labor of the greatest of all Greek Heroes, Heracles. Every time the Glory of Hera knocked off a head of this creature, two more grew to take its place. It was not until his nephew, Iolaus, had the idea to cauterize the stumps that the son of Zeus was able to vanquish his foe.

Believe it or not, today's topic was not chosen by me, but rather by the lovely Natalie, whose drawing is elsewhere on this page.  For this piece, I recycled my own designs for both the Hydra and Heracles from my upcoming book Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory (coming out in July!) but the drawing is all new-- took me about a half hour, from pencils to scan. Consider it a preview.

Lernaean Hydra

On the road with: barely there wireless, very poor light and no scanner.

Lernaean Hydra

Lernaean Hydra

Ink - So Long Osama

Now that the USA has killed Darth Vader I mean Osama BinLaden, do you imagine that we will all get our freedom back again? Or at least less crap to do at Airports?

This is an Indian Ink drawing done with a Windsor & Newton Series 7 and Higgins waterproof drawing ink.

weekend free for all - Naruto, Kakashi, and Sakura

I've been thumbnailing away and got tired of that so I started working on a Naruto drawing that I probably spent way too much time on. Rock on

Furever - Murdo *Update*

If we're talking about memories and departed pets then inevitably I think of Murdo. He was a Scottish Deerhound, an exceptional character and the last family pet that we had. Once he died my parents decided to not have any other pets. Partly for convenience, but mostly because they felt that they could not replace him. It would have felt disloyal. He lived a long and happy life, 12 years which is exceptional for a dog of his size. I helped dig his grave in a high patch in the garden, near where a patch of Rosebay Willowherb grows.

We were later informed that there is a Donkey buried on the same spot, though somewhat deeper. We didn't find it.

My cousin Gail has unearthed a drawing I did of Murdo for my grandmother. I was maybe 16 years old at the time?

This one has the virtue of being drawn while he was still alive.

Oh and the object of this whole exercise is to help my friend Amy fund her documentary entitled 'Furever' which is about the way we deal with the loss of pets. It's quite fascinating and a little weird...ok very weird. Help her out, it's a great project.