Downtown Vermin Bob

I have FOUND the original drawings
from the tale of
Downtown Vermin Bob...and his son, Benny....

















which started out as a thank-you note
to the Chicago Police Department for the rescue of these courageous beasts
who bravely pursued a garage burglar....
and got lost....
but, my note with a small drawing of the dogs
turned into a 12 page tale of adventure
in Bob's own words...with a color cover.

I made enough "books" for all involved....
and a few extra to have around...
which now amount to about two.

I'll make a few more...
and maybe, hopefully, have this fall.

Left's first time with crayons

The studio looks as though it was upended and slammed down.
I'm cleaning and attempting organization...
it could be that I'm only rearranging....
fooled into thinking it is organization
when it's really only organized chaos.
True order has always been way out of my reach.

I found several crayons that slipped behind a printcase...
and some paper that got away a long time ago.
I've been wanting to give my left hand a go at some color....
so I took a break:
















...must do more...

Driftless Area Ephemera

Here is the first of 8
I made up as postcards
for the "1000Postcards" show at the GreenLantern Gallery in MineralPoint..
opening tomorrow, August5th.
I'll make up another set similar to what is hanging there...
and I'll tell you all about them.
All I'm going to do right now is show you
this....













The Postcard Show just hit me right.
Postcards!
Postcards are pictures of places one has visited, spent time, or is now residing...
the show's timing was the perfect for me
to begin organizing the first of a large body of arting
I've been at on and off for the last several years.

This is the first time I'm introducing it publicly...
well, 8 small pictures of it.

A few pieces have been shown briefly...
but never in the company of the rest...
and never with the explainations.

I would have scanned the 8 before they left,
but this scanner could not handle the 3 dimensionality of them,
once I completed making them "ready to hang".