I did not paint that. It came with the house when Mom bought it, along with carpet that smelled of cat piss and ceilings painted brown to match the walls. We got rid of the cat piss carpets and brown ceilings years ago, but the coconut trees have been here the whole time. Until now.

For reasons that are completely unrelated to the fact that we're having house guests next weekend, we've decided to finally paint the solid green laundry room in tasteful Icebreaker Blue, Dutch White, and Purple Prince to accompany the Weeping Wisteria in the adjacent mud room. (You can probably imagine what blue, white, and purple look like, but do you know what color wisteria is? Hint, hint.)

Anyway, when our house guests arrive and wonder why the house smells like fresh paint, well, that's just me hiding the nuts in the laundry room.

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You might think I'm kidding, but I really did just take this off the refrigerator:

Yes, those are cowboy boots with little jets in the heels. And no, there never was a time in my life when I wasn't obsessed with comic book super heroes.

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When I started this painting, I was trying to have it done by May Fourth. But, as a wise puppet once said, "Do or do not. There is no try." And I did not.

However, in honor of Star Wars Day, I'll make my apologies with this here recent-ish picture of the work in progress.

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Can you guess what my next painting is going to be?

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Someone lost their tiger in my front yard.

If someone wouldn't drag that tiger everywhere, things like this wouldn't happen.

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Guess who the artist and graphic designer is on the latest Mythica Gaming product?

Hint: it's me.

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At long last, in the friscalating dusklight, here's SpongeBob sitting out in front of my house.

Little guy looks thrilled to be there.

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This has nothing to do with Batman or football. It's just Mr. Spock out standing in his field.

Live long and prosper.

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Here's an update on the "unidentified" character I teased I was painting last month:

As you can see, after the wood is cut and primed, I sketch out the details of what I'm painting and fill in the blocks of solid color. I generally use cheap acrylic paints for these, so this usually takes three or more coats. Except in cases where I need to delineate large areas of shadow (as I did with Smokey Bear), black is usually only done very last. In SpongeBob's case, green will probably be last, because his yellow body is outlined in a kind of puce on the show.

I still haven't decided whether there will be any additional color shading. SpongeBob is only rarely shaded on teevee, but he is frequently shaded in video games and in the movies. I'm waiting to see how it looks with detailing before I make that decision.

I'll keep you posted.

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Smokey Bear turned 80 on August 9. That was during the Olympics (when I had Izzy out front), so it took me a little extra time to get this big boy to the street.

Obviously, I cannot take credit for that design, just the painting. (I'm pretty confident that the original line art was by Rudolph Wendelin.) I didn't even take any liberties with the colors, as the U.S. Forest And Service has very strict Smokey Bear Guidelines: "Smokey always appears only with his traditional blue jeans, belt, buckle, and 'campaign' hat. Optionally, he carries a shovel."

I'm not interested in running afoul of the USFS, no sir. They employ bears.

That bit of fluffy white you see at the bottom of the image isn't fire-fighting foam: it's Henry the Poodle, who refused to get out of the frame. Oh, Henry.

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