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The latest illo for DVM Newsmagazine.

Announcement: Ryan Ostrander: Books By the Banks Poster Unveiling

Ryan posted his poster a couple weeks ago. Now get one of your own on Tuesday September 1st at 7PM when the new poster is unveiled at Joseph Beth Booksellers in Hyde Park.

Will Hillenbrand and C.F. Payne will be there also with the previous 2 posters and they will all discuss the process illustrating for this event! More info here!

Hey Ryan! Add a picture to this post :)

Jerry Dowling: More Bengals' Book Teasers...

From Jerry: Here are the front and back covers of Jerry's new book about drawing the Bengals. The book contains 262 drawings. It's a timeline of the Bengals two Super Bowl teams which nobody under the age of forty remembers. I based it on Star Wars because it is an old far, far away time in another millenium.

Fairy Godmothers

These are two of my paper doll fairy godmothers. Now I'm thinking I'll make them into cards or put them on bags or something like that.

More Caricature Art by Jerry Dowling

From Jerry: This is another gift caricature.

Henry the Impatient Heron Press and Blue Manatee Visit

Henry the Impatient Heron is Your Big Backyard magazine's August Book of the Month! Here is the print version of the review.

Also, come to The Blue Manatee August 29th to see me and Scotti Cohn talk about Henry the Impatient Heron and the book she wrote for the same publisher, One Wolf Howls.

The event is from 1- 2 PM. Hope to see you all there!

Announcement: Great Lakes Chapter National Cartoonist Society Get-Together

On August 22nd at 1PM, join the Great Lakes chapter of the National Cartoonist Society for socializing, chapter biz, lunch and to hang out with other cartoonists at Champps in West Chester (accross from Rave Cinemas). There will be a private room next to the patio and it is set up to order off the menu and separate checks.

Please RSVP to Craig Boldman or Daryll Collins.

Northwestern University marching band alumni illustration

A quick little piece for the cover of the Northwestern University Marching Band alumni magazine. I hope I didn't offend anyone here who may have gone to the University of Indiana.

Comp for the next Marathon poster...I think I want to paint it fairly loosely - can't decide just yet, need to sit and look at it a while. Feedback...? Type & borders are placeholders for now & perspective will probably change....

Manifest Gallery: Nude

The opening of Nude at Manifest Gallery is this Friday (August 16) from 6-9 pm.

From the promotional images I've seen, this looks like another great show. If any of you have never been to a Manifest opening yet, I strongly encourage you to start with this one!

(the image above is White Pillow by Kirstine Reiner)

Snow Dragon - Day One

Started this the other day and trying to fit it in between other work. It is a speculative piece for a joint project with a musician friend of mine.

hello everyone!!

Just wanted to say Hey! everyone. My name is Michael Dougherty. It was nice to meet some of you yesterday at lunch...some for the first time others from years ago. I was one of the original members from back in the 90's so its nice to come back and meet new people and catch up with some older members.

I am an illustrator who still specializes in airbrush(yes...airbrushing is still alive and well...lol) I have been a free lance illustrator for over 25years. I also own Anything Airbrushed plus located in Tri-County Mall. I have 2 full time and 3 part-time artists that work on everything from T-shirts to Murals and all things in between....all with an airbrush.

Here are 2 things "Cincinnati related" that were originally done for the 2007 WestFest poster but turned out to be to "Controversial" for this "WestSide" Festival....so there were turned into t-shirts. They are acrylic airbrushed with colored pencil on illustration board

Glad to be back

Cedar Grove Illustration

I am finally done with my illustration for the Midland Trail Project. This is 30" x 40" and was done in mixed media.

Announcement: C.F. Payne's New Website

Chris Payne has a new website. It is really cool so check it out:

It is www.cfpayne.com