For the latest 826 Valencia field trip I arrived Thursday morning and was surprised to see a group of folks from Santa Fe New Mexico who would help out with the field trip to see how it is done. That meant instead of the 5 people who usually work the field trips, there was more …
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Feb 08
826 Valencia Field Trip artwork: Annie’s Gold
Annie is a funny colored hamster who wants to mine for gold during the American Gold Rush in California. So she leaves from her home in Spain to go to California on the back of a swimming horse. She’s attacked by flying pigs before being rescued. Â [singlepic=396,320,240,,][singlepic=395,320,240,,] click for a bigger image This is the …
Feb 03
Fail!
At the last meeting of the Cartoonist Conspiracy the group tried something new. Inspired by the Fail! image blog, we would create our own images of Failure. To find out more check out Doctor Popular’s post, who suggested the idea as well as scanned and posted the art to Flickr. Here are some of the …
Jan 24
826 Valencia Field Trip artwork: The adventure of the French Veggies.
Today was the first 826 Valencia field trip of the year in which I work with a school group to illustrate a story they write as a group. Now, I won’t post the whole story like some folks have done (I am lazy I guess), but I will show you the drawings I created. [singlepic=388,320,240,,] …
Jan 04
Rain, Rain, Rain
It started yesterday when I was teaching in Santa Rosa at the Schulz Museum. At 8:30 am it was only a drizzles and by the time I left at 1:30 pm it was pouring fiercely with rain. The road markings were hard to see from all the water and most smart drivers were moving only …
Dec 07
“Sheep Song” from the Cartoonist Conspiracy-San Francisco
The other night the Cartoonist Conspiracy-San Francisco met and created a short jam comic. We had a new artist Lori who along with Jeff Plotkin and myself to create a 5 page comic (a very Fenini-esc and strange story). A fun little Jam Comic.. Click here to see the bigger image of the cover… <<READ …
Nov 24
826 Valencia Field Trip artwork: Crystal Blue
These are some drawings I did at the 826 Valencia writing center in San Francisco CA. I volunteer to work as an artist and illustrate the work of visiting school groups in real time. Instead of my usual storybook illustrations these were storyboards drawn with preteens. I really like the mixed media approach that happened …
Nov 24
826 Valencia Field Trip artwork: the 3 Friends and BIG fight in the Zombie Castle on Pluto
[singlepic=330,320,240,,] This was drawn a week ago, but I forgot to upload it till now. It’s the latest collaborative work I illustrated at the 826 Valencia writing center in San Francisco. This story, “the 3 Friends and BIG fight in the Zombie Castle on Pluto,” is the longest name I have seen to one of …
