Hodad's

Astronomical high tides today will send waves not only to the bottom of the pier but over it.  Merchants will be sand bagging the fronts of the stores, and hundreds will crowd the sea wall for pictures.  2013.

After the gym, I stopped in at the store and got more pictures for Facebook then almost walked out without my purse.  If you are interested in all these images I post everyday, you can find me on Facebook at American Cancer Society Discovery Shop/Point Loma.

Then, I actually had time to stop by Hodad’s with JPG’s of the drawing, made it to the cleaners, and ran a couple of other errands.  No Mikey at Hodad’s.  They said he was on a trip, but I don’t know if that’s a usual filtering device when mad artists visit.  Then again, maybe mad artists don’t visit often and he was really on a trip.

What I think I am really going to do is cut the middle of Mikey out so you can see the store behind him.  Everyone else seems appalled at the thought, but the idea brings a smile to my face perhaps makes it even more a work of Genre art.  Mikey owns one of the very first one’s I did in this style.  It’s really bad  It’s a wishy washy, quick color sketch, and it’s totally bland and embarrassingly innocuous as a work of art.  This piece certainly isn’t.

Photo of storefront that I worked from.

First inking.

Addding mmore color using colored/wax based pencils.  Not good, but they are what I have.

Mostly finished color.  I’ve been thinking of making that top blue a darker purple.

Mikey who owns Hodad’s.  Diner’s Drive-in’s and Dives love his burgers.  So do we.