Hard to believe......
 

But I once had a full scholarship to Art School at the Worcester Museum of Fine Arts ( do they even have that program there anymore?)

This was a drawing I did for Riverview B&T in 1989 for there tide chart.

That is quite advanced work for a student, Flap. I married a RISD Grad while she was still a student. I loved art school. and it's bennies.....

Ticonderoga #2 soft lead and a couple tissues will get that effect.

And everone wondered why you always had a dirty finger:laughs::laughs: Nice work for an student! What did you use as a model?

Steve .... very nice. :uhuh:


Not too late to do some surf, fishing, and shore scenes now. Though I`m still waiting for the book so finish that first ok.

One of mine in a similar style BD:

Nope just one of the caricatures that i draw from time to time,

On the Iron of America, as we build this great land of ours.

Or the shores of NE, and the playgrounds of the NShore, as my daughter and I travel
within the shadows of our forefathers.

Cain't get it to post the pic, dammmmmit!!

email it to me and I`ll post it for you Jess.

mikarin9b@hotmail.com

Mike

B/J


you married a RISD girl > wow you must have some wicked stories /adventures ;;

I,d never fish again if I did that ><><><<><:wid:

Hope that worked, Skitts!

Thanks again for yer help.



Nothing of any note or talent, just something fun to do ~gents.

BDs Iron Striper
 

see if this works Jess.... nope same fatal error? Pic file too big maybe ...sorry. Is that you with the beard to the right?

I did a Marlin or two as well

Nope, I took that pic with a throwaway kodak.

That was my bolt-up podnah for that job, Chappie, who makes some
kick-ass jellies from Maine's best blue, straw, and blackberries that
he hand selects each year from just the right patch, at just the right times :drool: :uhuh: :uhuh: :drool:.

Thanks for trying, Skitter. Prolly gotta zip them or somethin'???

OK, so now I'm really glad that Mike couldn't make my

drawing happen. that is some good stuff, Flaptail!

Well Done, :cheers: :cheers:, well DONE!!

That is a nice drawing . Hard to find a good striper drawing.

Geeezzzzzus, once you had talent, now you suck. Age is a biitch. But don't fret, I'll bring some pencils and paper and you can practice drawing pictures of all the big bass I catch next summer......I'm always happy to school ya. :D

The last thing I drew was some illustrations for an article in OTW. It's a drawing of a bass swimming through rocks at the Elizabeths. Dang if I can't find that issue.

Lately I don't think I can draw a stick figure correctly.

I hope your right about those big bass George!

( Though mostly they will be mine but it would make a nice sketch of you on shore with your headlight going and you swearing away as you pick out the line caught in on itself after snapping off a needle you just made on your first cast with it!):kewl:

great art
 

your extremely talented


and that would make a great t-shirt iron on or an Avatar too


hope your feeling better now about fairyland :btu:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/flap.jpg

Can you put that on my chest, without your name of course. lol

Flap that is awsome work! :kewl:

Flap

I remember that issue, because I really thought the drawing was awesome. I believe the caption said Bass swimming in the rocks at pasque. It was a October or November issue and Peros wrote the article

That's it! I'll look through the archives. Thanks!

This was a reject from that issue. It went horribly wrong.

Very nice!

Flap - I need a bass chasing a needle for the book. ???

DZ

Start up again - you can make it whatever you like. Send a few off coupled with your best writing to Gray's Sporting Journal - they've been running saltwater stories more often. Very nice by the way...

I would be honored to do so.

I looked all over and through all the mags I kept, must have gone out with the trash. Oh well.

Only a slight criticism, Flap, as I could never begin to touch yer talent....

The striper's eye looks more human or deerlike than fishy, is that what you were referring to? The rest of it looks GREAT!! Excellent attention to DETAIL, bro!

Bass have eyes that actually are the closest to mans in that they have rods and cone cells they look human some times. (Ever notice while unhooking a bass that he will follow your hands with his eye?) Some bulge, others recess some are oval some round. Eyes are one thing of anatomy that are actually hard to detail there are so many different forms even in fish.

A few of my friends went to school there. Great program. I spent a bunch of time there back in the 1960s. Great small museum and the school was very well respected.