Martha’s ruff and more!
Here is the pencil ruff I made on Martha Sigall’s 90th birthday card. I thought it would be fun if she could be dancing with the first and last theatrical Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters. Her husband Sol is keeping time in the background. Martha has the inked and watercolored final card. Thrown in are the next episodes of “Lane Allen’s Diary”, (still looking for info about this feature, how about it, Stripper’s Guide?) and KK.
David Gerstein says:
Mark, that pencil ruff is beauty incarnate. Where were you when Harman and Ising were hiring? (Er… never mind.)
Martha and Sol are salts of the earth—this drawing could hardly have been delivered to more worthy recipients.
Kent Butterworth says:
Hi, Mark
Discovered you here while I should have been working!
Some beautiful Krazy Kat dailies. Is that Monument Valley in your first post? I visited years ago and decided that it’s impossible to take a bad photograph there – anywhere you point your camera will be a great composition.
By the way, thank you for “It’s the Cat” – I have it on my Ipod, and I’ve shown it to a bunch of people.
Kent
Mark Kausler says:
Thanks David and Kent for the nice comments. I’m glad you like Martha’s card, David. I am working on a post about the time Hugh Harman art directed me to create a title card for ‘”Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid”. Kent, that photo was taken in Colorado on the road back from Estes Park, near Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s right next to the highway and easy to shoot. Thanks for showing “It’s ‘The Cat'” to people, just charge ’em two bucks a view and send me a dollar of it. (Yuk!)