Hey! That celeb has great taste in shopping bags!

Thanks to a former co-worker of mine who frequently peruses the celebrity photos on the People.com website, I was informed that a paparazzi photo had been snapped of this unsuspecting celebrity carrying one of the eco-friendly shopping bags that I had designed for Ralph's grocery store in the southern California area last year. In case you don't recognize her, her name is Holly Madison...Hugh Hefners ex girlfriend(okay, not the most classy of celebrities, but...) but the class that she has retained has all been saved for her taste in hand bags.

This is another eco-friendly bag design I did recently for Ralph's grocery store in California. According to my parents,who live in SoCal and shop at their local Ralph's, store employees tell them that these are flying off the rack faster than they can restock them. That's always fun to hear.

The Duck Song Book Trailer

The Duck Song book trailer can now be seen on Youtube. Singer and songwriter, Bryant Oden, as well as the original animator, Forrest Whaley, publisher Ben Flinders, and I as layout artist and illustrator worked together on this project as we converted the Youtube hit "The Duck Song" into a musical book for children-and adults as well!. Its a catchy tune that will have you singing for days! If you are interested in purchasing the book, please visit the link below for ordering instructions. Enjoy!

http://www.flinderspress.com/the_duck_song/the_duck_song_inquiry.html

Scout Patch Design

Here are a few patch designs, as well as a photo of the final patch, that I designed for the Topa Topa Lodge of the Order of the Aarow-Boy Scouts of America in Ventura, California back in 2004. I found the images while looking through old files today.

They were looking for something to speak of the heritage of Ventura, so I incorporated the California Condor, the Channel Islands, and the native Chumash Indians in a traditional fishing boat.

Surprisingly it won first place in patch design that year at the NOAC conclave and became a hot item for trading.

Moat Monster Sketches

These are a few sketches I did of a moat monster for book 3 of the Traveling Trunk Series to be out later this year.

More Caricature!

Here are a few more sketches I did this morning during a little bit of down time. Some are of family, some are just random photos I found. Its amazing how many different variations can come from the same photo.

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Trying to get back into my caricaturing. It has been too long. I feel a piece of me being restored. This is so natural for me do and endless entertainment for myself. These are some church notes from yesterday as well as sketches from a commissioned piece I am working on presently.
I spent last weekend at the UCLA Book Fair in LA manning our booth and doing caricatures of the attendees all weekend long - 450+ caricatures in 2 days. I enjoyed the laughs and smiles they got from the kids. I think I had more fun doing them than they had receiving them. What fun! More to come soon!