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Comics

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I enjoy some fun stuff with my caricatures or so I think of them as caricatures. They really aren't about anyone famous or anyone in particular so I don't know if they really qualify as caricatures but they are comic drawings of some kind, so I call them caricatures just because I can. I am truly thankful that I can draw these guys without someone putting me in the looney bin, I've been their and I didn't enjoy it much even if lot's of people tried to make it a good time. Losing one's liberties is never a fun thing so why pretend it was beneficial for me. In another way it was a learning experience because I learned that I could draw in any situation. I drew caricatures in their just to make cigarette money, which I did with the help of a guy who gave me mattes that had been rejected from the framing shop they ran on the campus. I took those frames and drew pencil drawings on some good BFK Rives paper then mounted them in those rejected frames. Th

Was That A Spring Day this week or What?

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Bike Rides always perk me up, two days ago I got out and I am still thinking about how nice of a ride it was for me. Heading out on the Rivana Trail down at the river was truly a delightful time. The air was cool. The river was flowing well, and the light was that special type of winter's light that comes in so low and yellow from the horizon at dusk. I brought my camera and stopped a couple of times to take photos. That ride took me out from the gym and back into reality of how beautiful it is around here if only you go out looking for it. What fun huh? I'll tell you I enjoyed my ride. I even saw a friend running in the other direction from the way I was headed. It wasn't such a bad thing to have a warm day in the beginning of March to break that indoor feeling of being cramped up and drying out to being full of life's warmth again.