Acrylic & Paint Marker on Notebooks • Private Collection

Semi-professional doodles increase the value of a notebook or binder by 11%.

Acrylic & Paint Marker on Acoustic Guitar • Private Collection

7th Grade Student: “Mr. Marrone, will you paint the guitar that I’m going to use in the talent show?”

Me: “You bet your elbow I will.”

John Beeler • Main Line Times • June, 2010

Welsh Valley Middle School art teacher Todd Marrone quotes Leonardo da Vinci, “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master,” and typically refuses to draw or paint on a student’s project. Of course all teachers are honored when former students acknowledge their work and ask for advice so he was thrilled when his former eighth-grade pupil, graduating Lower Merion High School senior Hanna Williams of Narberth, asked him to collaborate with her on her independent community-learning project, Senior Project, which in the case of Hanna (pronounced hah-na), a talented traditional oil painter, was an art project. Read the rest of this entry »

Canned Hair

In Podcast #75, the boyz (street for boys) and I tackle topical topics like Lou Diamond Phillips, baby names, hair in a can, wiping sticks, Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, plumbing and David Cross.

Acrylic & Paint Marker on Canvas • 14″ x 14″ • Private Collection

Fancy one of five compositions, conceived and created to contribute to Piranha Betty’s upcoming Iron Line Show. Each piece is meant to represent one of five virtues necessary to make it in the big city: brains, brawn, guts, instinct and heart.

Acrylic & Paint Marker on Canvas • 24″ x 24″ • Private Collection

Ogle one of five compositions, conceived and created to contribute to Piranha Betty’s upcoming Iron Line Show. Each piece is meant to represent one of five virtues necessary to make it in the big city: brains, brawn, guts, instinct and heart.

Acrylic & Paint Marker on Canvas • 24″ x 24″ • Private Collection

Enjoy one of five compositions, conceived and created to contribute to Piranha Betty’s upcoming Iron Line Show. Each piece is meant to represent one of five virtues necessary to make it in the big city: brains, brawn, guts, instinct and heart.

Acrylic & Paint Marker on Canvas • 24″ x 24″ • Private Collection

Consider one of five compositions, conceived and created to contribute to Piranha Betty’s upcoming Iron Line Show. Each piece is meant to represent one of five virtues necessary to make it in the big city: brains, brawn, guts, instinct and heart.

Acrylic & Paint Marker on Canvas • 24″ x 30″ • Private Collection

Behold one of five compositions, conceived and created to contribute to Piranha Betty’s upcoming Iron Line Show. Each piece is meant to represent one of five virtues necessary to make it in the big city: brains, brawn, guts, instinct and heart.

Offsprung

After a brief baby hiatus, UsedWigs Radio comes barreling back with a new studio, new format and new nonsense. Drink it in.