Place de la Concorde, Winter by Georges Seurat, 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137422

My cartoon for this week in The Midcoast Villager, Camden, Maine. Shenna Bellows, our Maine Secretary of State, when asked to provide voter roll information to the Feds, told them to "Go jump in the Gulf of Maine."

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on its test stand on Wednesday, sending a large fireball into the sky. The company had cleared personnel from around the site. wapo.st/4kUmz6G

President Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett to clinch a conservative legal revolution. But as soon as she arrived at the Supreme Court, she began surprising her colleagues.

Hey midcoast Maine, I'm having a show of acrylics and pen-and-ink portraiture at Zoot Coffee in Camden (Maine) during the month of June. I would love to hear what you think of it.

20 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

19 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

18 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

17 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

16 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

15 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

15 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

14 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

13 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

12 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

11 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

10 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

9 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

8 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

7 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

6 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

5 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

4 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

3 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

Drawing another portrait this morning. Pen and ink on paper. #art

2 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

1 - Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting

Drawing another portrait this morning. Pen and ink on paper. #art

Drawing this morning at my local food co-op here in Belfast, Maine. I love sketching people who sit at the counter that runs along the big windows. The back-lighting makes it interesting and drawing from behind protects the person's privacy. #art

Drawing weeds my mother's garden in South Alabama. #art

More from my visit with my mother in South Alabama. #art

Visiting my mother in Montrose, Alabama. #art

Last December (2024), this anthology was released at the Bangor (Maine) Book Fair by 12 Willows Press of Winterport, Maine. I was asked to illustrate the cover and Mariella Travis did an excellent job on the design. Hats off to publisher and editor Steven Long of 12 Willows Press. #illustration

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

Just made a donation to the ACLU, who are taking the Trump administration to court over their attempt to overturn birthright citizenship. I encourage everyone to do the same.

My one wish for the inauguration is that there is a gift bag under the seats of Bezos, Zuck, Elon etc, with a single, embroidered , padded knee pad Need to protect themselves when they are on bended knee, kissing the ring 🤷😆

Drawing Allyson this morning.

I am an MD, here at the local Univ. to speak to students about careers in Health Sciences. I hear, young people can’t read. Have you ever seen how fast they can read & type a message on their phone? They are smart & paying attention. They don’t like the direction the country is headed. There is hope

CARTOONS OF THE DAY 🫤 (Cartoonists are rallying around @anntelnaes.bsky.social as she leaves the @washingtonpost.com )

Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at The Washington Post, says her cartoon below was killed by Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner. Bezos didn’t want the cartoon to become public because it shows him kneeling before Donald Trump. You know what to do.

Drawing Dylan today. He's got a great head of hair. #waterfallarts #belfastmaine

Agree or disagree?

Waffle House has its own unofficial storm center and is so renowned for staying open during extreme weather that FEMA uses the "Waffle House Index" to measure the severity of disasters. If a Waffle House closes, you know it's serious! random facts