Short of having a big shot of the queen of diamonds, or Frank Sinatra holding a handful of queens of diamond card, which really doesn’t make sense in context, I really couldn’t think of a really think of what image to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for today’s entry, Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, I figured it was either the scene with the crop-duster or Mt. Rushmore and after a few fruitless experiments with different angles of the crossroad in the middle of nowhere that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not as big a fan of Clint Eastwood‘s Unforgiven as a lot of my friends are but the last act made up for any problems with it. After his best friend is killed William Munny gives in to his inner demons[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s sketch the little slip of paper told me to draw Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. This one just came almost fully realized (barring a brief composition snafu) this scene doesn’t actually happen in the movie but this was one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s sketch I will say one thing in my defense… Pulp Fiction has way to many iconic scenes! Ultimately I decided to go with the “miracle” scene giving Jules & Vincent a more shocked expression than they did in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was humming Leonard Bernstein’s score all the time as I finished this sketch of West Side Story. Part of me was wanting to have the Jets and the Sharks walking down the street looking a little bit more menacing, but this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch was of Billy Wilder’s classic comedy Some Like it Hot and the image that immediately came into my head was the final scene on the boat. Osgood: I called Mama. She was so happy she cried! She wants[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I received my instructions to draw The Godfather this morning I’m sure there were many good options, Sonny’s murder at the tollbooth and the horse in the bed scene come to mind. But ultimately, when you stop to think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” I’ve been wanting to do this one all month. I know it’s from having just watched it for the first time this January. But this is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well another free first Thursday at the Seattle Art Museum and another crack at Massimiliano Soldani Benzi‘s Lamentation of the Dead Christ. This time I tried going at it from the other side that I normally have. Regrettably it’s about as much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
