Movie Quote

What a coe-inka-dink. This is one of three designs I submitted for "The Black Keys"s Dan Auerbach who just came out with a great new album. If you want to way on your favorite t-shirt designs visit my blog.

Retro 80's Music

Believe it or not, this is supposed to be Pat Benatar. I loved her songs in the 80's, as well as those by the Human League, Air Supply, Bananarama -- and I was a huge Hall and Oates fan! My post is super late, but I really wanted to participate in this challenge and thought better late than never!

Little Bunny REtro

Looky! I finally did something especially for the Monday Artday topic!

Retro Sign

This isn't the best thing in the world, but I wanted to participate in this week's theme since I love retro signs, posters, etc even if I'm a little late. To explain this saying, there really is a sign on a "scenic byway" in rural Kentucky when I travel home from near Louisville to visit family an hour away. It really says this, but it's just script, no pictures or other graphic elements. No one really seems to know what it means by not renting pigs! We think maybe when people needed ponds, they would maybe rent local pigs to tamp down the ground...it keeps the ponds from leaking the water. We're not really sure what the heck it means. Feel free to leave a comment, especially if you can clarify what "we don't rent pigs" might mean! :) (I do know it was on a sign in Lonesome Dove.)

Retro: Poodle Skirts, Pop-it beads, Saddle shoes and teased hair

A super-quick (and sort of pathetic) sketch with ballpoint pen and watercolor pencils.

Retro

'80's frog.

'50's mom.

Retro Ad

Got Pep?

Retro

Seasons of Peace
by Roberta Baird

My Little Golden Book of Kali

Kali enjoys a cheerful day of death and conquering! What a happy day! Now, on to destroy the world! Annihilation is fun. Yay, hooray!

retro

The challenge on Monday Artday this week is "retro".

I love old television shows. Mostly, I love shows from the late 1950s through the 1970s. Shows like Leave It To Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, The Munsters and many others. These were true situation comedies. Totally unreal, far-fetched and implausible. These shows usually depicted perfect families faced with a horrible crisis, like Beaver losing his baseball glove or Opie knocking a bird's nest from a tree. After a while, these simple shows made way for more realistic sitcoms, like All in the Family, and M*A*S*H, leaving their cast to try to shake typecasting or to fade into TV oblivion.
Of all of these shows, the best example of a true "retro" sitcom was The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. It presented the wholesome adventures of a teenager and his family and friends. Dobie's main concern was girls, especially Thalia Menninger. Dobie's best friend was beatnik Maynard G. Krebs and his rival for Thalia's affections was Milton Armitage. And there was Zelda Gilroy, for whom Dobie was "the living end". A happy little TV world. A far cry from the reality of the assassination of President Kennedy, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis and the impending war in Viet Nam. When the show ended its four-year run, its stars entered a real life of which their characters could never have dreamed.
Dwayne (Dobie) Hickman became a high-ranking programming executive at CBS. Bob (Maynard) Denver was stranded on an uncharted island off the coast of Hawaii for 3 seasons, until he became a radio DJ in West Virginia, where he smoked a lot of marijuana. Warren (Milton) Beatty slept with every woman in Hollywood (except Shirley MacLaine), eventually settling on Annette Bening. Tuesday (Thalia) Weld became the cover girl for Matthew Sweet's awesome album "Girlfriend". Sheila (Zelda) James, who longed to have her unrequited love for Dobie reciprocated (even though anyone with a minimal sense of "gaydar" knew otherwise) was the first openly gay person elected to the California State Senate.

retro...for the inutero.

custom baby note cards. blank ones. i saw the retail markup today for them, samples shipped to me before the holiday swoon. OY. you'd think, as ARTISTS, we'd um, be that appropriately inflated.

but no. we are humble folk...scratching in the dirt, wearing old navy jeans (actually, i can only wear old navy and then a certain pair of jcrew "boyfriend" jeans, onna count i was born with no hips.)

scuse, me...i gotta go flip the gator on its back with this here pole...and give muh baby another piece of deer jerky. now wher'd i put mah good crayons?

sorry...so sarcastic tonight about not making it big or even fat anywhere yet...but busting clients thru their own financial stratospheres.

annnnyways....here's some old froggy things.