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Escaping to the mine

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.
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Dry Ink

Desert Painting

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.
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Dry Ink

Chinatown Street

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.

 

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Ramblin' The Sheehy Boys Wiley Sheehy

Angel Island

Took the boys to Angel Island today, they had a great time drawing in their sketchbooks and playing on the beach.

sketchbook drawing
Drawing in the shade on a hot day
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Gotta Run

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

poison oak
fly you fools
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Best to Bail

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
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Itching for a fight

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
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Way down yonder in the miner key

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.

 

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Ramblin'

Virtual Reality, circa 1938

Visited the birthplace of the view-master, aka the Oregon Caves. The caves themselves were awesome and wonderous yet it was a small sign off to the side near the lodge gift shop that caught my eye. Apparently, the little château here was the birth place of the view-master and in turn affordable mass-market stereoscopic imagery. William B. Grubber met Harold J. Graves while staying here, Grubber…

view-master
Virtual Reality, circa 1938

 

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Dry Ink

Upper Sacramento River

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.

river watercolor painting
I used to go fishing on this stretch of the river with my dad, every year for opening day of trout season. Good times.