Happy Birthday to Skippy Meekins

Here's a Birthday card for my dad, he turned 62.
I like how my redheaded pale corpse gray flesh came out.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthdsy, Marlo's Dad!!!! (She certainly got your expression right!)

Emily

Corbett Vanoni said...

There's a lot I like about this one!

Including those lovely hands - and the way you put your polka dots in perspective.

It's the little things that impress me.

Justin said...

Ah, that turned out great, I love the hands, and the piece as a whole. And let me say it as well, Happy birthday to your father!!!

Marlo said...

well, i showed it to my dad and he goes, "i look like a turd" HA HA HA HA HA HA

Ryan Khatam said...

i really like this. i like your expression & your eyes & your hands. good one

Corbett Vanoni said...

another Marlo success story!

william wray said...

thats killer, no wonder you like John.

david said...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEESOME
























great work pal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

David Germain said...

and he goes, "i look like a turd

I think you made him look more like George Lucas than anything. Unless he considers Mr. Lucas a turd, then we're both right.

Excellent drawing none-the-less. The arms are my favourite part.

Anonymous said...

So when you're rich and famous, can we come hang by your pool?
Those as always are Goddamn nice drawerings

V

Fresh Drink

Eddie Fitzgerald said...

Wow! Nice present for your dad! He must have a killer collection by now!

Unknown said...

i'm sure you made him cry all night with this! =D love your crazy eyes in this one.

Trevour said...

In addition to the great colors, I enjoy your use of non-rectangular paper shapes. Why can't we have more greeting cards in round-like forms?

Gary Clair said...

Awesomeness Marlo!!

Barbasaurus Rex said...

You've done it again.
You reign supreme.

Jenny Lerew said...

Oh, wow....beeyouteeful!

Plain to see you love your pop. : )

Anonymous said...

The young woman and her father is not transparently organized and atomized to reveal the mysteries of mass and light in nature, but pushes toward the foreground, so that one is intensely aware of the interlocked jostling of shapes, the jostling of consciousness, of conscience. The light blues and greens of the young woman's translucent skin push against the dark reds and browns of her 80s metal mane , forcefully meeting at the center focused by her hand and hanging skein of hair. The diagonal of the orange curtains descends through the swoop of her arm, joining the two halves, back and front, right and left. Her left arm enters and vaguely caresses the fathers shoulder but is ultimately cut off, for the woman's arm has snaked up from out of frame. One tends not to notice since our attention is drawn to the daddy person in the foreground.

I LIKES IT!

Jessica said...

Oh MArlo Yours is soo good!!!!!!!!!

I wish I could draw my DAD!!!I can only draw cute animals and stuff. You have such a gift! So talented!
Keep up the great posts! Very inspiring.
LATER!

Anonymous said...

MARLO WHAT STUDIO DO YOU WORK IN?

Kristen McCabe said...

Haaa! I like your pink finger tips!

Mr. Urzua said...

hey i really like this card for your father...im actually working on some holiday stuff for my parents and family...that i never attempted....but this is very cool.

not all the time i find time to do something for my own family.