Escaping to the mine

Posted 2017/09/12

The old miner makes his escape drawing Dick and Don towards his mine.

i'll loose them in the mine. — He knows those mines like the back of his hand.

Desert Painting

Posted 2017/09/11

Couldn’t sleep so I watched Super Troopers and painted a desert.

digital oil painting of desert — I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

Chinatown Street

Posted 2017/09/10

Thinking about my comic project with Dick and Don and how it winds its way around San Francisco.

San Francisco Chinatown alley — Avoiding the landlady.

Gotta Run

Posted 2017/09/08

The boys stumble out of the poison oak. The old miner has a head start. Will they catch him?

Best to Bail

Posted 2017/09/07

There is a commotion in the bushes and the old miner catches wind of Dick and Don.

campfire side — One step ahead of the heros

Itching for a fight

Posted 2017/09/02

Dick and Don were itching for a fight with the old miner, now they get to have an itchy fight. Bad luck, Looks like the boys stumbled into a patch of Pacific Poison Oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum).

poison ok drawing — Toxicodendron diversilobum

Way down yonder in the miner key

Posted 2017/08/31

Dick and Don spy on the old miner and scheme plans to take back their stolen gold. Are they itching for a fight or is that poison oak?

in the poison oak — Yep, ther’s the old man and sure enough that looks like our gold. Lets go get it back. We’ll need an overly elaborate plan.

Chipped tooth

Posted 2017/08/29

After the long fall.

on the rocks — I think I have a chipped tooth; I think I have a chipped head

Upper Sacramento River

Posted 2017/08/20 by Sterling

Found twenty minutes to paint while passing though Dunsmuir on my way north to see the great American eclipse in Oregon. Forgot to bring ink so I’ll clean this up a bit later. Can’t complain, after six hours in the car with three boys just sitting by a river is bliss.