SOAR

The only way to really soar that I know of is on an old-fashion swing. I love swings that are big and high enough for adults. I hope you have a great week and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Horizon

Hope is on the horizon! The Dream Delivers are nigh! Anyway- it's a fun fantasy! Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! From John (Random) York

Small Things

I think about the small things way too much and too often!

I hope you have a great week!

Excess

I have called up an earlier sketch for "Excess",

The topic for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY

I hope you have a great weekend and week!

Christmas Guitar CD

Merry Christmas!

Please visit http://www.myspace.com/randomyorkmusic

to hear clips form my Christmas Guitar CD...

Here it can be purchased...

http://www.johnrandallyork.com/music.htm

Here I am early in the morning on a Texas TV Station

5 Random Things

I've been tagged by Nicole Wong, whose work I admire and who has excellent taste in music, to write 5 Random Things about myself .

1. A friend once dubbed me "Random" because of the way I communicate.
2. I wanted to be a Flamenco Dancer when I was a child.
3. For my birthday once my Dad broke a raw egg over my head then presented me with a real top hat (what a guy!) (I was very young) (I still have the hat).
4. I was raised in a Zoo (my father was a zoo director during those formative years)
5. I visualize everything I hear so please watch what you say around me.
(Wow! I feel liberated now!)

Here are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Emila

Kitty

Chris

Kim

Lyndy

SCALE

Here is my post for an Illustration Friday thing I post a picture for each week... I don't know why, but I guess I will continue to do it.

I hope you have a good week!

Hats!

Hi y'all! Fairies and Witch Hats In The Wind! This was inspired by the Illustration Friday challenge this week.

I hope you have a wonderful week!

JOhn (Random) York

Halloween A Long Time Ago

And now, for your Halloween enjoyment- here is a little story I made a couple of years ago...

(click on the open page and the appropriate page will open)

HALLOWEEN A LONG TIME AGO by John Randall York

Peter Pan's Grave

Grow

This is "The Ravine" for Illustration Friday inspired by Ray Bradbury's HALLOWEEN TREE!

Happy Halloween y'all!

EXTREMES

Here is my "Extremes" submission for Illustration Friday "13 Ghosts"!

I hope you have a wonderful week!

BOOKFAIR!

The BOOKFAIR is coming to town! Tomorrow! It's kind of small, but this is kind of a small town so it's okay.

OPEN

Open a book! Make mine SCARY! The bad news is they are cutting down too many trees... the good news is they are making them into books and bookshelves!

Have a great week!

The Blues

The Blues... on ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY-

I hope you have an entire week free of "The Blues".

Hollow Halloween tree

Autumn is here! Halloween approacheth! Here is a hollow Halloween tree I just finished.

JUGGLE

Happy Friday friends! I hope you will have a great week till next illustration friday arrives!

The Fair is in town- I must go check it out!

Have a great weekend!

Wedding

Look who's getting married! I can't believe it! Happy "Hallo-wedding" Pumpkin King!!!

Have a great week y'all!

MOMENTUM

Behold the incredible momentum at work in this illustration! This illustrates my incredible decree of efficiency and ambition on this Friday morning... I need to gather a lot more momentum myself.
I hope you have a momentus week and weekend!

Alphabets

Alphabets is a good theme for Illustration Friday- I should do an Alphabet- I'm posting a "Sad Back To School Fairy" in case the alphabet doesn't show up.

Have a wonderful weekend-week... !

Visitors

Visitors to a real haunted house!

Have a wonderful week!

Summer- Almost gone!

Summer's almost over! I looked forward to it so much- the long days with lots of light and it is flying away from us. Here is a Summer evening sketch that was too much fun-

Here sketch inspired by Mr. Ray Bradbury's thought's about "The Ravine"

Captain

Aye-Aye Cap'n!

Here's Cap'n Jack (original name, huh?) Pumpkin Pirate!

Ahoy! 'Ave yerselves a good week, By Thunder! (ar-r-r-r)

EMERGENCY!

EMERGENCY Halloween Vehicle!

Hope you have a week with no emergencies! (me too)

Missing You

What's missing?

I hope y'all have a wonderful week!

Moon

The Illustration Friday topic is "Moon" this week- I like the Moon- I hope we build a space station there soon- it's taken much too long for me.

Have a great week!

POEM

It's Percy Bysshe Shelley!
This is a pic I did with "Ode To The West Wind" in mind.
I hope you like it. I'm late- this is "ILLUSTRATION SATURDAY" for me.
Y'all take care. Have a great week!

Discovery

"Hobbits"- I couldn't help but think of the great discovers in Tolkien's books- I hope it's not too corny.

I hope you have an excellent, worthwhile week!

Geeky

This week's theme hit's too close to home. Here is a geeky fairy.

Take care! I hope you have a really good week!

tWiSt

The Illustration Friday theme is "Twist"- if this is allowable- here is a new twist on the "Headless Horseman" legend- "The Headless Fairy of Sleepy Hollow". You have to look carefully to witness the drama, and it is a little bit slower since the chase takes place on snails instead of horses- but it's so exciting to watch!

Take care- don't worry! Have a great week!

Camouflage

Hopefully this little guy would remain unseen by anyone taking a walk on a Summer night. Good camouflage could perpetuate the myth that fairies don't exist!
Have a great Summer day and night and week!

Covetted "Thinking Blogger Award"!

Emila Yosof awarded the "Thinking Blogger" award to me- Thank you Emila! She is a gifted, sensitive artist and I always know I will be impressed on many levels when I visit her blog. I don't know if you are like me but I seem to need encouragement almost constantly and Emila has often picked me up with her kind comments- I need to follow her example. I will now pass this award on to 5 of my top favorite artist/bloggers on the Illustration Friday venue- people who make me think ( I wish it was for more than 5).

willie baronet His black and white sketches are always bittersweet treats for the eye and the soul.. I can't believe he lives only 100 miles away in Dallas!

elizabeth siegel Her vivid illustrations always make me think- they make me think "I wish I'd drawn that!" Here is her site www.tofusquirrel.com

The Unknown His cartoons are inspired- Something grabs me when I see his pictures and it is something unexplainable. His comic ideas are fantastic.

The Enigma I love the sentimental quality of her illustrations. I feel like I open a window and breath in the air of a memory when I view her art.

Sweet Pea Sensitive, beautiful illustrations that are by no means skin deep only.

Here is what you need to if you are tagged and if you accept the award... Chose 5 other folks you think deserve the award and write a post naming them and attach links to their blogs. Also display the award on your blog. Here is the link to the award site The Thinking Blog . Okay, now go blog, think and have fun! John Randall York AKA Random AKA Randy

Rejection

Rejection, Dejection... equals Alone- It's a sad subject.

I hope you have a great weekend and a week that involves none of the above!

Suit

A mighty suitable topic for Illustration Friday if I do say so myself! I sketched this guy dressed as an Anime character called "Hansel" at the Anime convention in Dallas last weekend. Here is a link to more sketches A-kon 18

I hope you have a great weekend and week to follow!

Your Paradise

I'll never be pick of the week with my choices because I keep choosing a short list of subject matter but Autumn, childhood memories of Halloween- the misunderstanding of the world around me- daydreaming- that's paradise to me (to be able to fly like Peter Pan).

God bless you- have a wonderful week!

Coffee Fairy

I don't know if I'll get the chance to post on Illustartion Friday before Sunday so here is a fairy drinking coffee to stall for time-

Take care!

Thanks for looking if you look!

Cars

The 2007 Willowwood- A Fairy Concept Car.

Have a good week- I hope!

SiGnS

A sketch from a story idea.

I hope your week is great!

Neighbor

Hi Neighbor!

This would be a dream on Halloween- a haunted house as big as the Texas Capitol building!

Y'all have a great weekend...and weekas well!

remember

I'm going to go with this guy for "remember"-

Have a happy last weekend in April!

Polar

Here's exactly what I'd expect to see if I visited Polar climes...

I hope your week will be better than you expect!

$$$$ FORTUNE!!!!$$$

"Fortune" is our theme this week-

here's a little Halloween Fairy who found a fortune in neat stuff inside a pumpkin- not the slimmy, gooey stuff I usually find in mine.

I hope you all (all 9 or 10 people who usually view my blog) have a safe, happy weekend and week!

Illustrate on!

GREEN

Green is my favorite color! I've been on a carousel horse kick lately so there may be more in the future... Here's "Green Witch Carousel".

Happy Easter... I hope you have a great weekend and a wonderful week!

SNAP!

The slim carousel fairies hold tight on as the horse's mane snaps in the wind!

Wow! And I thought I had a bad day yesterday- it can always be worse!

Have a happy weekend- goof off and have some fun!

I Spy!!!!

I spy 40 Fairies for Illustration Friday! Have a good weekend!

TOTAL

Well- I've been, pretty much, totally consumed with Ray Bradbury images lately. I just finished this painting called "Halloween Tree/Bradbury Circus"... The circus poster on the tree trunk advertises the "Bradbury Circus".

Of course it was inspired by Ray's The Halloween Tree.

I hope you have a great week!

Wired

I know this isn't exactly "Wired" but the patterns in the branches make me think "Wired".

Have a wonderful week!

Hide

Look carefully... fairies always hide in the trees!

Have a great, great week!

Communication

Isn't this silly?

I hope you have a splendid week!