One Woke Dude

Here’s a Republican, not new to this illustroblog, I’d like to have a beer with even though he’s done his share of flippin’ and floppin’. He’s put the bullshit aside for a while.

One Woke Dude

iPad art using an Apple Pencil on Sketch Club with a final tweak in iColorama.

My friend’s grandson

His name is Sean Reeser. He plays sax; and, he plays it well.
I drew him on my iPad using an Apple Pencil in the Sketch Club app with a final tweak or two in iColorama.
Check him out below playing with @ZackGrooves and Everything Yes, Live at Memphis Drum Shop.

Sean

Comfest 2023

Comfest, aka The Community Festival in Columbus, Ohio is, among other things, a three-day, annual celebration of irreversible identity change individually and collectively; and, Comfest 2023 is the 51st celebration of this irreversibility. It’s held each year in Goodale Park, and it comes together by virtue of countless community volunteers and a core group of tireless, creative, and generous organizers. As is written, ‘The festival bills itself as “The Party with a Purpose”.’

snap out of it, come to your senses, and PEACE

a feel

Here and There: Airbnbs while we hunt for houses

5 minutes by car to OU, 2 Bedroom, 1.5 bath, Wi-Fi; Athens, OH. July/August 2023

5 minutes by car to OU, 2 Bedroom, 1.5 bath, Wi-Fi, Athens, Ohio

Photo on the wall in the men’s room at Little Fish Brewing Co., Athens, OH

The Pawpaw Pad: Athens, OH. Late June/early July 2023

The Pawpaw Pad: 5 miles from Athens & Hiking Spots

The Pawpaw Pad: 5 miles from Athens & Hiking Spots

Ohio University

249 Franklinton/Downtown Condo: Columbus OH. June 2023

249 Franklinton/Downtown Condo

Deeptones, Columbus Art Festival

Serene Cozy Couples Getaway: Milton, DE Mid-April to mid-May 2023

iPad art

Spring unfolds in Milton, DE mid-April to mid-May

Cozy house on friendly, beautiful Baltimore block: Baltimore, MD Mid-February 2023

iPad art

Cool house a few doors away, used to be a church.

Copper Pretzel Plumbing on my New iPad

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I recently got a new iPad, a sixth-generation iPad Pro, 12.9-inch (33 cm), colloquially known as the M2 iPad Pro, complete with digital copper plumbing, 512 GB and, by necessity, a new 2nd generation Apple Pencil. Yea, it’s amazing; it’s my 3rd iPad since I started drawing and painting on an iPad in 2013, 10 years ago!


Here are a few other digital renderings done on my new device – mostly composed in Sketch Club using iColorama, Procreate and VideoShop here and there:

A Week in Punta Cana…just in time for our 30th anniversary and the first day of spring

Ok, this time I took my iPad to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic for an all-inclusive week at one of the most beautiful beaches on earth. Every morning we reported for beach duty. Someone would have to get up a little early to reserve some chairs under a palapa, a stationary beach umbrella made of thatch.

Breakfasts and lunches were available at two different buffets, but dinners were different at our all-inclusive. Our group of 6 had made reservations ahead of time at five different restaurants, we returned to one of them twice. That restaurant was Limbo, and it had a wonderful bar and extraordinary bartenders. Our favorite bartender was Emanuel:

Venders came around throughout the day selling just about everything; drinks, of course, were free. That’s the all-inclusive way!

I’ll end with one of the carefully made drinks at Restaurante Limbo!

Happy anniversary to my dearest, Annyth.

#CelebratingCroz

As you can see HERE in these previous posts, I’ve done some digital paintings over the last few years of the late and great David Crosby, whom I’ve admired for well over half a century. I present most of them here because it’s #CelebratingCroz day on Twitter.

Willy! Another new friend.

Annyth and I are celebrating the Christmas holidays outside Columbus, OH with family. All of the people, young and old, are creative, generous, intelligent, and talented; but there’s one who stands out above the rest: Willy, a magnificent Portuguese Water Dog.
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