This past weekend we family reunion & multiple birthday party at my sister’s place out in the country. About a hundred family and friends showed up in cars or campers. Kim and I brought our tent, so technically these sketches are still “camping” sketches!

Above, we have a landscape depicting the view from the back porch, a shot of someone fishing down at the waterfront, spectators (to the Newfie Horseshoe tournament) sitting beside an ancient camper, Norton the dog, and a half-finished study of the kitchen.

Here’s an earlier page… more views from the back porch, including a few quick studies of the fleeting Chickadees that were zipping to and fro by the feeder.

It being summer and all, Kim and I went camping with friends & family this month – first to Cape Crocker on the northern part of Bruce Peninsula. That’s where I found this little boat beached on Georgian Bay – a few yards from our campsite. One early morning I awoke before the rest of the gang, so I went down to the beach with my folding chair and sketched for about half an hour.

Took a little breather yesterday and made time for some drawing. I picked up on this illustration challenge via RSS, and decided to give it a go. A fun little exercise that let me forget about CSS, and website coding for a bit!

I’m falling a bit behind in my work on the Masters of the Universe show (previously blogged) submissions. I did however get some good sketches done last week and am going to pour everything I’ve got onto these canvases for the next six days! Wish me luck!

I also finished a page of sketches for an illustration of Wonder Woman. It started out as a potential Teela/She-Ra image this past weekend, but today I roughed in this page just for kicks.

Just a few Post-it note sketches from work.

I’ve been working out an idea for a children’s book starring the first three characters. I’ve added the item to my “projects” folder and hope to find some time to work on that next year… I’ll have to do some research on the market; see what’s out there, maybe read a few books that target the age group I am going for. Then I’ll have to look into printing and publishing options. I guess I could just write/draw then damned thing and worry about the rest later.