WEEKLY STANDARD ILLO

FEed Barnes article on how unknowledgeable the President is about business in our capitalist system......somedays i LOVE my job!

THOSE MULLAHS OVER IN IRAN

Giving Uncle Sam the hot foot for the 50 gazillionth time..... "ooooh, why can't WE have nooclear power too??? we are poor and want cheap, peaceful energy." Yet all their facilities are WAY too small to be power plants......but juuuuuuusssst right for building bombs.

Prayin' for wisdom for our leaders.

MOSES, DYLAN, PALIN.

I venture to say, no human has ever typed those 3 words side by side before. Maybe one of those million chimps, with a million typewriters, typing for a million years, attempting to accidentally type out a duplicate copy of Hamlet, would type Moses, dylan, palin. But no human.

BOB DYLAN CHRISTMAS ALBUM COMING SOON....w;

i got to drawl him for WEEKLY STANDARD.....but it got bumped for another story....so hoprfully i geet to paint him next week. here is the sk.

WEEKLY STANDARD COVER THIS WEEK!

SHOULD Get the pin out of my finger today!

9 years have passed---Miss you Mark Gillming 44

i sat in church that sunday morning, in the balcony.... lookin down, from behind on Mark in his black leather coat ( it was exceeding cold that day) thinking how cool it was to see that young man grow up here....... really proud of him....... he was such a leader in the youth dept, to my freshman son, and on his team. He even played with me the morning before, on our cherry street flag football team. He wore my 1980 high school jersey, i wore the 1981jersey (so we matched---#40 with LOCKE on the back) and we shared receiver gloves( i wore the right, he wore the left)......i kept telling him to be careful not to get injured, "your coach will kill me if you get hurt!"..... he made some incredible plays that cold saturday morning.... he made me nervous and proud....... all of that was going thru my head as his dad spoke that sunday morning....i smiled..............................i worked that sunday evening....... Disty called me as i sat at my table painting the hottest painting i had due the next day................. then...... all i could do was yell "NO!!!!!"...............................................i'll never forget the sunday morning after!..I have never been so angry in a church service in my life before or since...... man did we blow it as a church. i'm getting over it ...albeit slowly. Gary Locke 40

IF I SHOW YOU ANY MORE OF THIS illo

they'll break my other fingers......but this bird/bug illo is one of my favorites.....the finger is from catching a Jason Olson touchdown pass 2 weeks ago. had surgery friday to straighten it all out again.

i miss Ken and Shirley

2002 carnival cruise......fun time. God don't make better humans.  Our loss...Boston's gain

WEEKLY STANDARD HEALTH CARE COVER

THANKS TO CARA OUSLER FOR PUTTING THESE UP IN THE WEB

GARY IN THE BLU AND GRAY SHIRT....CARA IN THE BLUE AND WHITE DRESS....MR'EUBANKS 5TH GRADE CLASS ELDORADO KANSAS SKELLY ELEMENTARY PANTHERS!

by the way....16 days of the Daniel fast at church.....i am that skinny again!  in art class  one day, we did portraits of the person across the table from us, i got to draw Roxanne Young....i still remember the experience,i had only done self portraits rom life, this was a different experience, looking, no staring, no studying someone's features just feet away from me. very cool. wish i still had the drawing.

Good ol Dan Ingalls....red white and blue shirt in mrs Beck's class....he got his motorcycle stuck in my yard just 3 weeks ago,,,,the grasss is still dead. Man, did we have POSTURE!!!!!

mrs mcQuerry......ooooooo...the dreaded 3rd grade teacher...i lucked out and had mrs. heise!....not pictured!
they are smiling in this picture, but it was  FORCED! she had some threat of horrible and vile penalties of some aweful nature to get them to smile i'm sure.

FOOTBALL SEASON IS B A C K ! ! ! ! !

OH THE JOY!

TELL STICKY STORIES

1• simplicity

2• unexpectedness

3• concreteness

4• credibility

5• emotion

6• story

http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/jill_bolte_tayl.php

FIRST OF ALL....DID YOU SEE THE SUNRISE ON LONGS PEAK TODAY????

http://ns.www.nps.gov.edgesuite.net/featurecontent/romo/bmvc_cam.html  ..........wow.....this updates every couple of minutes!!!

FIRST OF ALL....DID YOU SEE THE SUNRISE ON LONGS PEAK TODAY????

http://ns.www.nps.gov.edgesuite.net/featurecontent/romo/bmvc_cam.html  ..........wow.....

SUZANNE MAILING LABEL STUFF

I really liked the idea of the milk man hostage

oh well... maybe someone will buy the idea someday

HI....I AM STILL HERE!!!

DID SOME LABELS A FEW MONTHS AGO FOR SUZANNE......before i had my "breakthru'' in photoshop.......had a bunch of cool idears she did not want........and i got to draw Obama and Holder throwing CIA agents under the bus.........gonna be tough to get new recruits to be agents in the future i fear, if they all think they could be prosecuted by the next administration. But what do i know? I've never BEEN to BBC.

UNCLE WILL HAS CLIMBED EVERY SQUARE INCH

of what we see in this photo.....Tejeras, Music and more here......8-3-09, Sangre de Christo national preserve.

WELL, THAT WAS A LOUSY SHORT CLIP BELOW,

here is a better one

GOT TO WORK FOR CLAY TURNER AGAIN!!!!!

ALWAYS FUN!!MAYOR BLOOMBERG WANTS TO take  control of the guns in NY City...and David Gregory loves him for it!!!  rough sk....final art...and some more reference and sketches....

sSO....I DID MAKE IT OUT TO COLORADO

here is proof...near poncha springs, monarch pass...

5 HOURS BEFORE I WAS TO DRIVE TO COLORADO

On business and to bike ad hike with cousin and uncle and nephew.......i accidentally shut Sadie's  little head in the car door.... she passed 30 hours later.............. guh. .... . . . . . .sorrow doesn't cover it.

Cuteness was her self defense mechanism... it was her only sin. Man, she is missed.

G.O.P.

will they get it?

HI Joseph...and Mathew if you are there today....

Great to make contact with you

oOOPS----I PUSHED THE WRONG BUTTON

on that last post

NFL AND COCA-COLA GOT TOGETHER AND HIRED ME TO DO SOME COKE MACHINES!!!!!!!!!!!

THEN, they got in an argument about who should have the most prominent logo on the  machines ..... . .  .  .   .      .         .  thus we never got to go to final on any of them. Oh that was a sad day..... here is the sk for my favorite one.... tonight i decided it needed some color.

PAUL THE APOSTLE.....

lowered down the wall in a basket at NIGHT!

ART FOR PEOPLE WITH IDEAS

thought i would post my sketches for this promo last year....pre wacom tablet...this is actual pencil on paper, and painted in watercolor before scanned and photoshopped...now(since Matt died in september)............all digital on my wacom cintiq 21ux.......by the way------TRANSFORMERS 2.....WAS     T E R R I B L E ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! SAVE YOUR TIME AND MONEY....go see startrek or UP again!

ART FOR PEOPLE WITH MOUTHS

Worlds of Fun.......Coca-Cola Classic.....mmmm Coca- Cola classic!

ILLUSTRATIONS CONTAINING 5 ACTIVE INGREDIENTS...

NOT jut 2 like all those other illustrators...........................................Shark for Publix grocers.....Dunking wings for Tyson
.......Geezer for Tyson"mmmmm, tender"..... CaseyStengel for MLB world series program.

ART FOR PEOPLE WITH NOSES

Gecco for a contest to name the newly discovered species....  Fritos dood for self promotion...  Klunker for an energy company in the southeast....... cows for Sargento

ART FOR PEOPLE WITH EYES

MOOVERS......QUICKTRIP....SNAPPON TOOLS

fall KIDS STUFF Catalog cover illo

just finished...showing sketches too......     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVrmP3COuH8&NR=1       . . . . . . wow

LET'S GO FOR A SWIM!

IN PROGRESS TOY CATALOG COVER--RUBIX CUBES ARE BACK!

man it felt great to be done with the swim!.

1.2 miles down.....68.7 to go! still not raining.....you should have seen the radar at 4 am----i was sure it would rain all day long by the looks of that.....but many of us had been praying for good weather.....and as has been proven so many times...God like me. Weather was GREAT!! Swam with the BMAXers tonight at meador pool.....came home and had blisters from the sunburn from the 13.1 mile run in the sun!!!

i could not sit for over an hour

thoughts of Matt Key came as i finished.....so I hugged Teener, and cried on her shoulder.

more from Kansas

Notice how the bouys go off into the distance!!!

these btw, are the port•a•pottie lines.

I R O N M A N K A N S A S 70.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH.... PRAISE OBAMA.......

But why won't AOL work for me today? did i miss something? was there gov overhaul, i mean takeover of aol, and now i have to wait 6 months for my email?

HAPPY SUMMER!!!!!!

AND I AM SO SWAMPED WITH WORK, i can't even go outside!!!! Adam is moving to his new house sunday, Amber is moving home from college saturday.....9 spot illos due monday! Yeah money! 17 days from 70.3 Lawrence!!!!

Church on Sunday morning!!!!!!!

So here is next week's cover for the Standard!! i am gettin better at this digital stuff i think.showing some of the ideas we went thru to get to the final.

CHENEY WORKIN OVER OBAMA

 Get'm Dick!!!!!  um....i mean praise obama.

IF I TOLD YA'....I'D HAVE TO KILL YA'!

COWS ARE MORE FUN TO DRAW THAN

grass, phil mickleson, plates of food, umbrellas, 4 wheel drives, book shelves, things from arkansas, wool caps, poorly designed boots, rapidly declining self employment pension plan statements, and corn.

  Now ya' know.

IT'S 80º.......FOOTBALL CAN'T BE FAR AWAY!!!

OH...FOOTBALL!

MUG ROOTBEER HIRED ME T DO STUDIES FOR THEIR LOGO/ICON....

I DID THESE.....THEY LATER USED.........THE SKETCH FROM THE ART DIRECTOR. Oh well.

BEAST OF A JOB FOR SI KIDS

LAST TIME I SPENT THIS much time on one illo was 1994 for Rush Limbaugh, his calendar.....and focus on the family teen conference in LA/DC was also a monster.

almost done---gotta change the truck back to red again---don't like the chair red and the truck red... but facts are facts, and the fact checkers rule!!!!

greetings EARTHLINGS

AS MY FRIEND TOM LIKES to say

STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED MY TAXES

coca-cola 1997ish.

ADAM AND DAD - - -ONE DAY OLD

HI ALL----I LIKE SPRING!!! I L O V E SUMMER!!

SOME DONKEY AND ELEPHANTS HERE.........hi Min!

MATT WS HERE TOO....

9.26.08

MATT POLE VAULTING--------

just saw this today for the first time........... picture worth a million words.   HTTP://WWW.MATTWASHERE.COM

MATT  WAS HERE.

OK--- YOU GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1EAu9IE&feature=related

if that doesn't work....youtube louie giglio, indescribable part 1------part 2 is even better, but part 1 sets it up.

i breathe out coca cola classic breath..... God breathes stars into existence!

boy am I important. 

mad scientist----rgb instead of cmyk......

DO WE TRUST Charles whidmore, or Benjamin Linus? Why did Ben kill Locke??

DID I EVER POST THESE??

MAD SCIENTIST FOR CLAY TURNER OVER AT THE NRA MAGAZINE.

again, another case of the sketch outshining the final.

OBAMMMMMA RAINING MONEY DOWN ON COLLEGES!!!

college administrators are ecxtatic.  weekly standard......... cow bird sketches..........today is the MISSOURI WINTER GAMES!!!! Playin' racquetball all day tomorrow....or....maybe i get beat 2 games in a row and go home  and watch the snow.....oooooo.....yeah, it finally is gonna snow on winter games weekend! that should be fun!

BASEBALL IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!

I TOLD YOU JIN WAS NOT DEAD BACK IN THE SPRING!!!!!!!!

Amazed by my own smartness these days.

And humbled by my own amazement.

COMPUTER TRASH---WEEKLY STANDARD

OK----I RELLY DO  THINK THAT DANIEL IS CHAROLETTE'S DAD. there ....i said it.  Watch the last 2 seasons with that in mind, and you too will believe.

I MISS SUMMER.........

tigershark-honeymoon-cornflower-bull fighter-dragonfly-doggie bag-bullfrog-watchdog-soap opera-clownfish, and people like , in the  iraq...don't have maps...so on and such.so ....i personally believe that u.s. americans, because oh some uh, should help south africa and the iraq,and the asian countries,  and such as, so we can help build up our future, and.

I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!

HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SITE THAT PROCLAIMS MY GREATNESS!!!! I AM SOMEBODY NOW!!!!

I WON I WON....I I I I I I WON ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

"THAT GUY----SEES THE FUTURE DOOD!"  SAID HURLEY TO THE INTERNET!!!!!

You gotta go to this site---http://media.podcastingmanager.com/4/0/5/2/2/130983-122504/Media/Dharma%20Jughead%20Reactions.mp3?ref=rss

I see the  F U T U R E    DOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! listen up till the progress bar gets to here........and they tell the world how great I am....and for being great...i win some buttons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  i am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!