We took my daughter to Cabela's to look at all the stuffed animals. Nothing like a trip there to get me yearning for a trip to the mountains. I couldn't help but sketch a few of the critters!
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New Valentine Sound Cards - In Targets Near You!
Kudos to my cousin's 6 year old for telling me this joke. It's been around a while, but never with such an amazing audio accompaniment...2/11/10
Thirty Paige®
Another fantastic installment from the strip "Thirty Paige" by the Late Don McCabe. Love the way the black and white is used to enhance the setting's drama.
2/10/10
Finalized Book Jacket - Little Island
The second installment in Bryce Holt's "Red School" series, to be released soon. © Minor Planet Press / Tim McCabe
1/29/10
Sherron Collins: Beast Mode!
I took some action photos at the KU / MU game. (Most of the action revolved around us scoring and Mizzou watching!) Then I went in and had some fun with a few new Photoshop brushes I downloaded. Rock Chalk!
1/21/10
Southeast Kansas Tractor
Stumbled across this old fella in the frozen mud. Done from a field sketch in Parsons, KS.
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Woodcarving: The World's Second Oldest Profession
Several years ago we made a trip to Germany. I had been there before in 2000, but the second time my wife and I, along with some friends, made it more of a road trip.
The biggest highlight for me was a meal in the small town of Kippenheimweiller with some ancestors on my mom's side. I am a bird nut, so I gave the family a watercolor of a European Jay as a gift. The people and town were amazing, charming all the way around. (Later I painted the home as a Christmas gift to my more immediate family.)
What I came home with, however, was an unabashed love for German Woodcarving. From the cuckoo clocks to the architecture and altarpieces, Germany is home to some of the finest and most picturesque woodworking.
One small shop carried hundreds of Christmas Nutcrackers, and collections of wooden incense burners in the forms of people, or "smokers".
These have a rich history, dating back to the 1800s where woodworkers lathed these statues in the winter months specifically in the Eastern mountains of the country...
So I spent my own winter months creating my own. These three characters are a birdwatcher (naturally), a chef, and a golfer. I still love my smokers, both the ones I made and the ones we brought back from Deutschland.
(And speaking of Wood Work, how'd you like to be the poor Friar who affixed the cross atop this Alpine cliff...)
Images © Tim McCabe
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