Back to work- Back to school- with Snacks!!

Okay- a little out of practice... after tens days off...

Yeah- a very good Christmas and a great New Year's Eve!

and though the kids are excited about being back to school

(and bragging about Christmas loot)- it all comes down to

"What's in my snack bag??"

Happy New Year!

How a Snack Bag Art bag is created....

Hey, you gotta dance!
Blow for GOODNESS SAKES!!Special Treat- see how I actually draw the bags- see below for short video!


Figured folks might want to see how a project is created- so when making one of the bags for today, I made a little movie showing the process. In all a bag usually takes about 1-4 minutes.... of course the time depends upon:

A) what's going on in the background (someone killing someone else and I have to intercede?)
B) how intricate I wind up getting (Know when to say when.)
C) if I decide/want to use colored pencils (Ooooohhh, see the PRETTY!)

and

D) how much time I actually have to make them!

By the way, I use a Kuretake brush pen

like this:

Very nice and responsive. I got it after an old room mate of mine told me about Sumi brush pens back in the early Nineties... have always loved doing drawings with it.

Now- the video.

Enjoy:

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Reality takes a back seat....

Ok, even for ME these seem a little strange!

Yes! the seldom seen GLUMP!!

Something appeals to me imagining
alien invaders being eaten like so many

BIG Macs.....



Ummm, I don't know....
maybe the flowers are
NEXT DOOR!


til later...

Ok, let's see now...

What do we have today?

Ahhh....
the mystical Flower-Horse!

Huh??

Well, blue folks do like to dance....
right?

What if....
you just thought you could be a turkey?

Back from School Break!

Who ate tooo much TURKEY??

Yes, I'm doing the happy dance because everyone's back in school!

Tomorrow is December 1st-
I'm getting ready for the oft repeated question!

A Puritanical view....

Almost Thanksgiving- which gives me a break; no school Thurs-Fri!!!

So, enjoy the Thanksgiving Theme, and remember;
it's not what you're having, it's what you have!!

Heh- just imagine you're a turkey....

But try not to hurl if you over do it!!!

"What are you anyway- some kinda Bag Man?!?"

Why, yes.
Yes I am!!

I AM THE BAGMAN!!!!!

Ok, get a grip.

too much candy? YEAH!!

How much?!?!?!

sure, NOW you feel it....

And whose pet *IS* this????

make up your mind, already!

Well, what's art anyway?

'nuff said!

I never trusted that guy....

why not they're free....

Welcome to a new hell....

Dancing Lizards and Cannibals!

Well, well, look what the art dragged in today......

I was too tired to draw arms....

And why not?!?!Geico's made a fortune off the critter!

And today's personal favorite...
Kind of sets up the Thanksgiving theme for next post!!! :)

random images attached to bags...

Sometimes I just let the pen "walk" around the page. That is; the first few strokes go where they will and THEN I try to make an image....

like this guy's hair shape was the first thing on the page...

This girls nose was the first line....

the jaw and mouth/nose was the shape I started with...

bags, bags, enuff to make you weep!!!

may have lost some images! My son has been making Stop Motion Movies for YouTube under his alias shen 703: unfortunately, that means he's been using my camera, and erasing/formatting the SD card- and I may have had a bunch of images still on the cards not imported to the hard drive.... %$#@!$@#.
Oh well, there will always be MORE BAGS!!

still churning! (or, "Life During Wartime")

Ok, I've been trampled by time constraints! Nevermind that the last three-plus weeks have featured head lice, strep throat and swine flu sweeping through the homestead!! I figure there are only four more plagues left! I feel like Job; next week is probably locusts!

Random offerings follow- still only have missed two days making snack bag art for the kids.
Not bad.

 a personal favorite.

more to come....