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The Boy Does Kandinsky: The Bird

2009-06-24T09:23:00.001-04:00

The boy brought this one home from school last week. The assignment was to channel your inner Wassily Kandinsky. I place this one somewhere between Kandinsky's looser Blue Rider period and the tightened up Bauhaus works. This one is bound for framing and hanging in the mcglinch home gallery.

Labor Day Car Illustration from the Boy

2009-06-15T11:51:00.000-04:00

The boy created this pencil illustration of a car for his Labor Day art project for school then merged it in Photoshop with a Chicago background.

Wall Runner by Kevin Duke

2009-06-08T08:58:00.000-04:00

I've been deep into freelancing and consulting since the layoff in January. One of the benefits has been a drastic reduction in the amount of meetings I need to attend. And the meetings I do attend actually require my attention. The bad side of that equation has reduced my drawing and doodling opportunities.

So it was a great surprise and relief when I received this drawing last week in the mail done by Kevin Duke from Oyster Bay, Long Island. His father, one of my best friends, sent it thinking it fit within the "mcglinch" genre.

It seems to me that there's few things more liberating for a kid than the opportunity to pop up onto a wall and run it. To challenge gravity, balance, and your parents' nerves and to see the world from a different perspective -- all in your bare feet -- must turn an ordinary stroll into a real-life adventure.

Thanks, Kevin, for letting me post this. Send more when you get a chance!

Toothy Worry

2009-04-15T21:46:00.000-04:00

A little post-report-writing doodle before bedtime.

Archive: English 115 Doodles

2009-04-15T20:25:00.000-04:00

From 1987 and one of my favorite classes at Temple taught by Steve Zelnick where we read Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Andrews, Pride & Prejudice, lots of poems, Jane Eyre, and Hard Times.

In addition to the pulleys, surfer, tornado, skull, rocket, and sail ship, this doodle even has a pencil-point race track like we used to create in study hall in high school.

This is a drawing I did of Professor Zelnick the first week or so of class back in the fall of 1987. (He looks a little like Fran Dunphy (Temple's basketball coach) in my doodle.

This is him today.

Tied Up Man Drawing on Silly Putty Transfer

2009-03-12T10:18:00.001-04:00

I've been doing a lot of research lately and conference calls and the Silly Putty comes in handy as a stress ball substitute. Actually, it's more than a stress ball substitute -- it's far better. Silly Putty has way more functionality: stretching, snapping, shaping, melting, and image transferring.

Drew this guy last night as a call ended and did a transfer with my very old, dust-filled, Silly Putty ball this morning when I was on the phone again.

Waiting for the Reap'a to arrive

2009-03-10T21:26:00.002-04:00

Don't know why I drew this a couple weeks ago. Was either thinking of the Blondie song (below) or just thinking I hadn't drawn a skull or scary thing in a while.

Blondie Die Young Stay Pretty.

Atlas under city

2009-03-04T20:25:00.001-05:00

Drew this up a week or two ago and finessed (or messed) it tonight in illustrator and photoshop. What does it mean? I don't know. Maybe it's the next album cover. (click for bigger image)

Dog Licker

2009-02-25T21:02:00.000-05:00

The product of conference calls and taking breaks while writing docs over the last two days.

impatient chair guy

2009-01-26T21:42:00.006-05:00

For being laid off, I still don't have a lot of time to draw. Pieced this together throughout the day between other tasks.

Cheney Hurts Back Moving Out

2009-01-20T21:49:00.000-05:00

Having recently injured my back and working it out through physical therapy I felt a little bad for former VP's condition this morning watching the inaugural events. They said he hurt his back moving boxes as they were preparing to vacate the VP's residence.

Drew this up quickly tonight thinking maybe he didn't want any ham-handed movers taking care of his man-sized safe .

Turtle Head on Wheels

2009-01-15T14:58:00.000-05:00

I think I did this on an Amtrak to or from New York City on a business trip for the old job back in September -- I get to call it that now: "old". I think I had those Art Instruction Schools commercials in my head -- where you draw Tippy The Turtle and a pirate and they tell you how good you are. I actually filled one of those out when I was in elementary school.

The C Was Catapulted by The Boy

2009-01-14T11:42:00.000-05:00

I received my walking papers yesterday by the job. Economic downturn, cuts, etc. Wasn't a complete surprise: pull out your exit strategy when the boss casually asks you whether and where the project you're working on is backed up.

So I did the cardboard box shuffle and quickly emptied my office and got away. While I was doing a couple miles on the elliptical after I got home I looked over and saw this charcoal piece the boy did a year or two ago in school. We've been meaning to hang it but haven't gotten to it.

I really love the dark drama of his lines and his sense of humor. I had a chuckle to myself thinking that "The McGlinch Was Catapulted".

I'll keep plugging away on drawings while I look for a bridge to rebuild.

HearYa Earwood Vol 1: Best of 2008 Live Sessions

2009-01-09T11:10:00.000-05:00

When I emailed the guys at HearYa my opinion of an O'Death song they took a look at the mcglinch blog and asked if I'd be interested in doing a drawing for the cover of their first-ever compilation of live in-studio sessions they recorded in 2008 with various cool Indie bands like Joe Pug, Backyard Tire Fire, The Everybodyfields and 13 others. I signed on for the job and ended up designing the whole cover. Head on over to HearYa and take a listen and grab the full album download for free. Thanks, Oz and Shirk!

Bad Hair Day

2009-01-08T22:34:00.000-05:00

Ended up working on this messy hair experiment when I should have been working on at least one of two other projects. This will at least warm me up for them.

Archives: Surf's Up

2009-01-05T21:42:00.000-05:00

Another old sketchbook find. My room-mate and our pals were surfer dudes. Back in the free-wheeling single days, I'd spend some evenings practicing drawing/painting in our South Street apartment ball point pen sketching surfer pix by eye out of his surfer mags then painting them in with acrylic. I used to make birthday cards and post cards out of them. These two never made it out of the sketchbook.

Archives: Gray Scale Study

2009-01-04T12:36:00.000-05:00

Part of my ongoing digging through the rubbermaid tub of stuff that I kept from high school and college days. I think this one was from my painting class at Temple U or just something I did at home. Some kind of bowl or vessel filled with black liquid, coffee? Rough but I like the light.

Archives: Reaching For The Pit

2009-01-03T22:06:00.000-05:00

From the late 1980s, I think this was a rough concept when friends were working on building a surf/skate wear company . Or just more of my fascination with arm pits .

Archives: Mall Cop

2009-01-01T17:50:00.000-05:00

Was putting away Christmas boxes this afternoon and figured I'd dig through some of the other plastic storage containers in the basement and see what I could get rid of. Here's one from 1989, a collaboration with my old pal, Steiny, that we were doing for the West Chester University newspaper.

With all the ads for Mall Cop this week, this one comic now seems on time, 20 years later.

The Year Ahead Is This Big

2009-01-01T13:20:00.000-05:00

A quick diversion from the Twilight Zone marathon. Happy New Year to all.

Skull & Two-Legged Cat

2008-12-29T21:00:00.000-05:00

No reason behind today's rough sketch. Some coffee stains on a crinkled piece of paper. Last sheet in the pad. Didn't like the feel of the pencil on the paper. I've been trying these Bic Pencils but they're a shade harder than the old reliable PaperMate pencils. Got frustrated and just blew off the cat's rear legs. He'll deal with it, dragging himself around where he needs to be.

Coffee Stain Conference Call Nightmare

2008-12-16T19:44:00.000-05:00

My mind has been slipping in so many ways these days. Last week I left the house without my filled coffee travel tumbler. After dropping the kids at school I returned home (now that the cost of the gas to return home is less than it would have cost me to buy a fresh 20 oz. at Wawa ) and retrieved it.

After settling in at work, I proceeded to apply a forearm to the the tumbler and dumped many ounces over various notepads and documents.

An early morning conference call today provided the perfect block of time to reveal what was hidden in those coffee stains.

Congestion

2008-12-10T19:45:00.000-05:00

Spent Thanksgiving on my mother-in-law's couch watching The Godfather and pieces of bad NFL games with the worst cold I've had in recent memory while the rest of my family were out feasting at an uncle's house.

This was all I could muster out of that weekend.

Fake Tilt-Shift Pennsylvania Turnpike Truck Wreck Scene

2008-11-24T22:12:00.001-05:00

On our western Pennsylvania roadtrip this weekend, my brother had the backseat and I told him to snap photos along the way with the telephoto lens. He took this photo along the PA Turnpike on the way home yesterday. I thought it was a good one to try my hand at tilt-shift photo faking.

Watching & Waiting To Move On

2008-11-12T21:09:00.000-05:00

This was the only drawing that came out of a whole sheet while I was watching tech support remotely access my laptop and proceed to uninstall, install, uninstall, install MS Office Monday and Tuesday this week. The others were of a guy deciding whether to push his own head down onto a sharpened pencil Joker-style . I just couldn't get it done right so dropped it for now.

Another sketch + color photoshoppery.