G.O.P.

will they get it?

HI Joseph...and Mathew if you are there today....

Great to make contact with you

oOOPS----I PUSHED THE WRONG BUTTON

on that last post

NFL AND COCA-COLA GOT TOGETHER AND HIRED ME TO DO SOME COKE MACHINES!!!!!!!!!!!

THEN, they got in an argument about who should have the most prominent logo on the  machines ..... . .  .  .   .      .         .  thus we never got to go to final on any of them. Oh that was a sad day..... here is the sk for my favorite one.... tonight i decided it needed some color.

PAUL THE APOSTLE.....

lowered down the wall in a basket at NIGHT!

ART FOR PEOPLE WITH IDEAS

thought i would post my sketches for this promo last year....pre wacom tablet...this is actual pencil on paper, and painted in watercolor before scanned and photoshopped...now(since Matt died in september)............all digital on my wacom cintiq 21ux.......by the way------TRANSFORMERS 2.....WAS     T E R R I B L E ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! SAVE YOUR TIME AND MONEY....go see startrek or UP again!

ART FOR PEOPLE WITH MOUTHS

Worlds of Fun.......Coca-Cola Classic.....mmmm Coca- Cola classic!

ILLUSTRATIONS CONTAINING 5 ACTIVE INGREDIENTS...

NOT jut 2 like all those other illustrators...........................................Shark for Publix grocers.....Dunking wings for Tyson
.......Geezer for Tyson"mmmmm, tender"..... CaseyStengel for MLB world series program.

ART FOR PEOPLE WITH NOSES

Gecco for a contest to name the newly discovered species....  Fritos dood for self promotion...  Klunker for an energy company in the southeast....... cows for Sargento

ART FOR PEOPLE WITH EYES

MOOVERS......QUICKTRIP....SNAPPON TOOLS

fall KIDS STUFF Catalog cover illo

just finished...showing sketches too......     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVrmP3COuH8&NR=1       . . . . . . wow

LET'S GO FOR A SWIM!

IN PROGRESS TOY CATALOG COVER--RUBIX CUBES ARE BACK!

man it felt great to be done with the swim!.

1.2 miles down.....68.7 to go! still not raining.....you should have seen the radar at 4 am----i was sure it would rain all day long by the looks of that.....but many of us had been praying for good weather.....and as has been proven so many times...God like me. Weather was GREAT!! Swam with the BMAXers tonight at meador pool.....came home and had blisters from the sunburn from the 13.1 mile run in the sun!!!

i could not sit for over an hour

thoughts of Matt Key came as i finished.....so I hugged Teener, and cried on her shoulder.

more from Kansas

Notice how the bouys go off into the distance!!!

these btw, are the port•a•pottie lines.

I R O N M A N K A N S A S 70.3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH.... PRAISE OBAMA.......

But why won't AOL work for me today? did i miss something? was there gov overhaul, i mean takeover of aol, and now i have to wait 6 months for my email?

HAPPY SUMMER!!!!!!

AND I AM SO SWAMPED WITH WORK, i can't even go outside!!!! Adam is moving to his new house sunday, Amber is moving home from college saturday.....9 spot illos due monday! Yeah money! 17 days from 70.3 Lawrence!!!!

Church on Sunday morning!!!!!!!

So here is next week's cover for the Standard!! i am gettin better at this digital stuff i think.showing some of the ideas we went thru to get to the final.

CHENEY WORKIN OVER OBAMA

 Get'm Dick!!!!!  um....i mean praise obama.

IF I TOLD YA'....I'D HAVE TO KILL YA'!

COWS ARE MORE FUN TO DRAW THAN

grass, phil mickleson, plates of food, umbrellas, 4 wheel drives, book shelves, things from arkansas, wool caps, poorly designed boots, rapidly declining self employment pension plan statements, and corn.

  Now ya' know.

IT'S 80º.......FOOTBALL CAN'T BE FAR AWAY!!!

OH...FOOTBALL!

MUG ROOTBEER HIRED ME T DO STUDIES FOR THEIR LOGO/ICON....

I DID THESE.....THEY LATER USED.........THE SKETCH FROM THE ART DIRECTOR. Oh well.

BEAST OF A JOB FOR SI KIDS

LAST TIME I SPENT THIS much time on one illo was 1994 for Rush Limbaugh, his calendar.....and focus on the family teen conference in LA/DC was also a monster.

almost done---gotta change the truck back to red again---don't like the chair red and the truck red... but facts are facts, and the fact checkers rule!!!!

greetings EARTHLINGS

AS MY FRIEND TOM LIKES to say

STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED MY TAXES

coca-cola 1997ish.

ADAM AND DAD - - -ONE DAY OLD

HI ALL----I LIKE SPRING!!! I L O V E SUMMER!!

SOME DONKEY AND ELEPHANTS HERE.........hi Min!

MATT WS HERE TOO....

9.26.08

MATT POLE VAULTING--------

just saw this today for the first time........... picture worth a million words.   HTTP://WWW.MATTWASHERE.COM

MATT  WAS HERE.

OK--- YOU GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1EAu9IE&feature=related

if that doesn't work....youtube louie giglio, indescribable part 1------part 2 is even better, but part 1 sets it up.

i breathe out coca cola classic breath..... God breathes stars into existence!

boy am I important. 

mad scientist----rgb instead of cmyk......

DO WE TRUST Charles whidmore, or Benjamin Linus? Why did Ben kill Locke??

DID I EVER POST THESE??

MAD SCIENTIST FOR CLAY TURNER OVER AT THE NRA MAGAZINE.

again, another case of the sketch outshining the final.

OBAMMMMMA RAINING MONEY DOWN ON COLLEGES!!!

college administrators are ecxtatic.  weekly standard......... cow bird sketches..........today is the MISSOURI WINTER GAMES!!!! Playin' racquetball all day tomorrow....or....maybe i get beat 2 games in a row and go home  and watch the snow.....oooooo.....yeah, it finally is gonna snow on winter games weekend! that should be fun!

BASEBALL IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!

I TOLD YOU JIN WAS NOT DEAD BACK IN THE SPRING!!!!!!!!

Amazed by my own smartness these days.

And humbled by my own amazement.

COMPUTER TRASH---WEEKLY STANDARD

OK----I RELLY DO  THINK THAT DANIEL IS CHAROLETTE'S DAD. there ....i said it.  Watch the last 2 seasons with that in mind, and you too will believe.

I MISS SUMMER.........

tigershark-honeymoon-cornflower-bull fighter-dragonfly-doggie bag-bullfrog-watchdog-soap opera-clownfish, and people like , in the  iraq...don't have maps...so on and such.so ....i personally believe that u.s. americans, because oh some uh, should help south africa and the iraq,and the asian countries,  and such as, so we can help build up our future, and.

I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!

HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SITE THAT PROCLAIMS MY GREATNESS!!!! I AM SOMEBODY NOW!!!!

I WON I WON....I I I I I I WON ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

"THAT GUY----SEES THE FUTURE DOOD!"  SAID HURLEY TO THE INTERNET!!!!!

You gotta go to this site---http://media.podcastingmanager.com/4/0/5/2/2/130983-122504/Media/Dharma%20Jughead%20Reactions.mp3?ref=rss

I see the  F U T U R E    DOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! listen up till the progress bar gets to here........and they tell the world how great I am....and for being great...i win some buttons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  i am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

L O S T is back!!!

I L O V E . SUMMER!!!

THIS is chapel bluff, near Edith, Mo. summer morning 2007.

YOU are looking south east aprox 9o feet above  the river.

MAN--THAT STAR WARS TRAILER LOOKS G R E A T ! ! !

AND AMERICAN IDOL TONIGHT...(AFTER THE TUESDAY WORKOUT)....AND MOST IMPORTANTLY...THE MOST ANTICIPATED DAY----------L O S T  SEASON 5 TOMORROW NIGHT AFTER PRAYER SERVICE AT CHURCH...LUCAS KEY IS DVRing IT AND WE ARE GONNA WATCH IT RIGHT AFTER CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by the way, what did that prayer mean at the inaugural "may the white  accept what's right."???  what if Reggie White said that stuff?

and so it begins

DRAWN FOR THE GREAT P C H A L K ! ! ! !

MY NEW ONLINE PORTFOLIO

http://garyartgood.carbonmade.com

35 image for free here...try it yourself.... Now....how do i get art buyers to come here?? doh---stupid cmyk!

"JUST BECAUSE I HANG OUT WITH MORONS......

doesn't make me the smartest man alive.... it just makes me the SMARTEST MORON."  matt chandler

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This is a fun sports promo i put to gether

fpr self promo email blasts. many images from the CORE AMERICA t-shirt line i used to do, the SPORTiNG NeWS, SI for KIDS, MCI(2 days before they went bankrupt) and SPIN mag., and Focus on the family... the photos are from nov 1981 of me ( in red) in the state playoffs.

oh my word-----have you seen this???---  http://vimeo.com1778399  ????

CAN'T WAIT FOR BIG SNOW!!!!!

fly catcher sketch & final

Northward books......BIRD BIRD BIRD, Written by April Pulley Sayre.......scissor-tailed flycatcher, stint, stilt, stork.

I VOTE FOR STEVEN EHASE FOR 2008 HEISMAN

CENTRAL MISSOURI MULES SAFETY    S T E V E N   E H A S E  ! ! ! ! ! ! 

MY WIFE GETS LAID OFF ONE DAY

I GET EXTRA WORK THE NEXT DAY! GOD IS GOOD!

here is the PENTECOSTAL EVANGEL cover and the NRA Rahm Emanuel as attack dog illo for Clay Turner! what fun!----oops! cmyk again! sorry

don't forget mattwashere.com!

nope............ didn't work

here is a bullfrog...i hope to paint someday...

hmmm---just trying something out here......

FUN TO DRAW PICTURES

THIS  was for a possible ad in the Workbook. I never painted it.

WRAPPING PAPER

YEEEEE HAWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

here we go!!!!

why is there under score going on here??

this was for TIME magazine a few years ago....

GOD DON'T GIVE US OBAMA!

IT WAS SO NICE HERE YRsterday, i heard locusts  doing their  "sssswzzzzzzzzz zzzzzwwwwsssssseeeeee'' thing they do. should have been here.

I GO TO VOTE NOW!!!!!!!

GOD DON'T GIVE US OBAMA!

TOOTH FAIRY

FUN TO DRAW....TOOTH FAIRIES ARE...TONITE I DRAW COWS!!!!  FUNNER TO DRAW.....DOES ANY ONE ELSE AGREE WITH ME THAT   LOST   IS THE BEST TV SHOW OF ALL TIME?!

TOOTH FAIRY

OOPS.. CMYK AGAIN

SKETCHES FROM BIRD BIRD BIRD

some rejects, and some that made it.