Dad and Mom
iPad sketch of my father and mother when they were in their early 20s.
I’m still learning my new drawing software. I’ll get better, I promise.
November 10, 2019
November 3, 2019
October 27, 2019
I have a plan for that
I recently got Adobe Fresco and needed to play with that. I stayed with basics by drawing a cartoon. Some of it is a little rough but it was fun experimenting.
October 20, 2019
October 13, 2019
October 6, 2019
Paula
My German ancestors came to the US around 1850. Some of the family stayed in Germany. More than 160 years later we have been able to reconnect with our kinfolk in the “old country.“ Thanks, internet. My fourth cousin, who lives in the same small German village, recently came to Texas to visit us. He brought his granddaughter with him. Here she is:
Digital illustration
September 29, 2019
World War Warrior
The original photo was found in a pile of old family photos. No one can identify our horse soldier from the first World War. He was looking at the camera but I chose instead to give him a downward glance.
Digital illustration
September 22, 2019
Grand Memories – Petting Zoo
We took a lot of photos while at the Houston zoo. I combined several to come up with this drawing for Creating Grand Memories.
Click on image to enlarge. Copyrighted
Digital illustration
September 15, 2019
Madison
My grandniece. I managed to finish this drawing while riding in an airplane. An unusually calm and smooth flight.
Digital illustration
September 8, 2019
Rachel
Rachel Parker Plummer was born 200 years ago in March, 1819. She was married at 14 years old and gave birth to her first child when she was 15. At 16 she moved with the Parker clan to Texas which was still a part of Mexico.
Barely a month after Texas won its independence the Parker family fort was attacked by hundreds of Comanches who had approached under a flag of truce. Rachel, her toddler James, her younger brother John, her cousin Cynthia Ann and her aunt Elizabeth were captured and split up among different tribes. The men were murdered and scalped. Her grandmother was raped. She never saw her son again. Rachel, pregnant with her second child at the time of the raid, was only 17 years old. About five months later Rachel gave birth to her son, Luther. At six weeks old her infant was tortured and murdered.
For 21 months as a slave she was constantly abused until finally ransomed by Mexican traders and taken in by a family in Santa Fe. In February, 1838 she was reunited with her family. Emaciated and covered with scars and sores; her once bright red hair was gray. She was now 18 years old.
In January, 1839 she gave birth to her third child. In March of that year after her father had an altercation with another family they fled in the middle of the night. During that torturous trek, on March 19, 1839, Rachel Parker Plummer died. She was three days short of her 20th birthday. Her baby died three days later.
In 1843, her first child James, now 8 years old, was ransomed and returned to the family. At 27 years old he died of typhoid during the Civil War.
Digital illustration. I have seen only one photo of Rachel. Using that one I tried to modernize it. I also changed her hairstyle and blouse but they are based on 1830s fashion.