For this week’s selection I decided to watch some films from Vincent Price’s early career, and by sheer happenstance, also the early career of Charles Bronson,. I had grown up with Vincent Price being carefully crafted self parody feeling kind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The October Monster sketch challenge was such a useful creative exercise that I decided to do it more often. I’d put it off for a couple of months because of playing catchup on my buffer. So now that I feel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had really mixed feelings when a drew the card for today’s Sketch, Touch of Evil. Make no mistake I loved the opening ten minute tracking shot of the car bomb scene and I loved Orson Welles‘ performance as the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay I think I’m getting back into my grove here. I first saw My Man Godfrey this November and thought it was comic gold. Both a commentary and a parody of the upper crust in the middle of the depression. So[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I confess based on the rules of this month’s challenge I kind of cheated. I briefly looked up a couple of images to refresh my memory on Arab robes and Dromedary Camels for this sketch of Lawrence of Arabia. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Leave your troubles outside, So- life is disappointing? Forget it! We have no troubles here! Here life is beautiful… The girls are beautiful… Even the orchestra, is beautiful.” For the fifth day of my film sketch challenge I drew Bob[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one of the times I do not like the random factor of this exercise because if I’d been making my own daily choices on this thing I would not have chosen two Orson Welles films in the same[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s film draw from the hat was one of my favorite Akira Kurosawa films Seven Samurai. Based on the you’re only allowed to use your memory rule I was almost tempted to try to merge my vision of this with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was busy today so this was a real rush job… I’m afraid that it shows. Today’s sketch is from one of my favorite swashbuckler films Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. It was tempting to go for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think one of the reasons that this sketch challenge has been a bit of a… well you know…challenge, is because I have been over thinking things and trying to come up with an image that covers the whole of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
