Hiawatha - Part 2

In color.

Hiawatha - Part 1

In pencil...

Streets In Technicolor #2

Los Angeles, 1935

Spike!

By The (Non-existent) Pool

Everything was going swell, until I reached the feet. No more elaborate digital stuff till I get my hands on a tablet!

Streets In Technicolor #1

New York, 1939

Musical Interlude

We're working on a blog revamp, so in the meantime here's a Russian-style tour de force by Raymond Paige and his massive orchestra.

The Defence

An accusatory office doodle.

(This spot was originally for the Sunday night girlie, but I had too many eyes nearby while trying to finish it)

The World of Tomorrow

It's all fun and games until someone invades Poland.
1939 was the year of the great New York World's Fair, or as this documentary accurately puts it, a real-life land of Oz, complete with surreal architecture, a tin woodsman and a midget village. I could ramble for hours on the subject, but I'll let the documentary above do the talking. It's a nicely done tribute to this little slice of paradise between the depression and World War II.

Sunday Night Girlie

An office doodle turned to colour.

Anyone listening?

No, this blog hasn't been left out to die just yet, I just haven't come around to doing something worth displaying. Especially now that I finally found a job.

(Gotta make a decent art-deco backdrop one of these days...)

The Hobo

A quick little something I whipped up a while ago. I gotta take up watercolours again.....

Railroading...

Yes, it's true... I play with model trains. Not only that, I build them myself! Modeling the pre-war era isn't particularly popular amongst model rails (unlike the flippin' 50's and 00's) so appropriate period models are rare, and thus expensive. With the prices of rolling stock going through the roof, I resort to building my own, using whatever bits and pieces I find in my scrap yard. Above, the ubiquitous Pacific Fruit Express reefer (yes, that's what they're called), in pre-1942 paint. Below, a somewhat rare Southern Pacific auto boxcar from the 20's.


Both made from cardstock, paper and an old chassis. Sometimes I wish I could write a magazine article on building one of these but I'm afraid Uncle Pete may ask for compensation.... that's the fearsome Union Pacific railroad. So There.

Captain Eddie

Recently, Uncle Eddie re-posted his 4 part saga of Capatin Hooked and Peter Pan's dog. When originally posted, I made this sketch of him and a pie and thought it would looks great as a Collier's cover from the 30's. Looking at this ancient doodle again, I figure it merits being drawn again....or maybe I'll do another pose that is more suited to a cover's vertical format.

Rollei!

A little something I whipped up while reading National Geographic..... well, looking at the ads, anyway.

Happy New..... Post.

Dear readers (if any), I apologise for the magnificent lull in posts, as certain obligations have kept me away from this 'ere electro-scrapbook (although I did post a few photographed goods on the ole flickr page). Sketchings have been rather scarce in recent days, and I've fallen behind in my self-imposed lessons, but that will be corrected soon enough. In the meantime, here's a little view of things to come. I've been working on this Packard for ages, and the more I get into it, the more I have to correct. Still, here's a fairly completed area.... still missing the hood ornament, though.