Here's a vacant house for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY for Halloween Day! I can hardly express how much the image of a proverbial "Haunted House" means to me, and I can't explain it. These old Halloween metaphors are comforting to me, maybe because of the childhood memories.
A few repairs are needed in this old house. Have a great weekend/week! Early Happy Halloween!- John
Look at the wonderful stuff they bake everyday!
My wife came home at lunchtime and brought this... a cake from The Village Bakery! I miss this cake very much.
I finally decorated the big Elm tree in our front yard for the festive month
Even Blerpy got into the fun! (She reminds me of Totoro)
YEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! "Strings" is the ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY theme this week! Y'all have a great weekend and a wonderful week!- John
SuGaRy The theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY! Please forgive me for using a picture I have used before but it IS very sugary. I hope you have a wonderful October weekend and week to follow!- John
Packed! The theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY 
LOOK! A Vampire Clique! -for Illustration Friday
I'm not an "Island" kind of person... I'd hate to be one one today and I hope my fellow Texans in Galveston and other coastal sities get out safe and alive. Here is the best I can come up with at this juncture, a pumpkinhead (I should have put wings on him!) fairy-thing riding a snail on a beach. Boy, he needs to pick up some speed!
Illustration Friday is about "Clutter" today. I find comfort in clutter. I love stacks of books and piles of art supplies and interesting things spilling over onto curious shapes... and the scene isn't complete without a cat on top of it all, asleep.
Here it is Friday again! Fall is on the way and my memories go there! ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY.
It's the old "Sword Swallower Routine", as seen on ILLUSTRATTION FRIDAY!
"Detach" is the word for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY and I can think of no more fitting subject!
"Sail" is the theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY - I got a lot of great ideas as I searched for things I've already done like this. This is a few years old and done pretty quickly. Now I am loaded with plans for a large painting. Have a great, GREAT weekend (and week)! John
Warm colors, huh? Halloween is coming, again. I anticipate the tinme of year and enjoy looking forward and backwards. 
POOF! Here it is- my entry for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY
The theme for Illustration Friday was "Canned"... I'm already thinking about fresh pumpkin bread in the Autumn!!!
"Enough" is Illustration Friday's theme today... it's different things to different people. Y'all have a great weekend and a wonderful week- don't take things too seriously- John
"Sour" is the theme for Illustration Friday today- but I'm hardly in a sour mood, it's The Fourth of July!!! Happy 4th of July! Have great weekend (I hope), I'm watching the Twilight Zone Marathon on the Sci-Fi channel. God bless you!- John
This is a little picture done for fun in a sketch game started by James Gurney called Art By Committee- 
This is my latest entry in James Gurney's ART BY COMMITTEE sketch game go check them all out... I think you'll be glad you did!- John
Here is a "Vampire Family Tree" I just put on EBAY.
I sure had a lot of fun with this- though I misunderstood the assignment for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY from the beginning, you know "Hoard"... yes, I thought it was like the Mongolian Horde. I imagined this "Horde" of mice... but I rationalized that they could be "Hoarding" guitars! It all makes completely perfect sense! Have a wonderful week my friends!- John
PUNCHLINE is the theme of ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY so here comes the punchline... (why don't YOU write it!) Take care- Happy Father's Day! Have a great weekend and week to follow- John
"Baby" is the theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY (and I can't believe it's Friday) and though these aren't exactly babies I'm sure the little round shapes on the fairy on the right were learned by my observation of our children when they were small. A little one asleep is one of the most beautiful sites on the planet.
As you may know "Worry" is our theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY this week- I chose this little guy because he looks worried to me. I made this drawing to be "Little Lord Byron"- does he look worried to you? Thanks for looking! Have a GREAT weekend! I hope you get Monday off!- JOHN (Random) York
WIDE or "VIDE" (when it involves vampires) is the theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ... If it looks like this was done in mere moments, well, IT WAS! I got stuck on "Wide"
These are supposed to be dim bulbs, my entry for the Electric theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY... I hope you have a wonderful week!- John
"Seed" is the theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY this week... I could hardly wait to move away from the Creepy "Wrinkle" picture I posted last week! Here's the entry this time, it should come with a warning about being careful what you plant.
"Primitive" is the theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY this week... I call this a "Primitive Headless Horseman"- I hope you enjoy it and I hope you have a great, great weekend and week to follow!- John
"Fail" is the Illustration Friday theme. This is ball point pen, watercolor pencil and China Marker on notebook paper. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and week!- John
"SAVE" is the theme on ILLUSTRATON FRIDAY this week... this is an old one, it was the closest I had that honestly dealt with the theme. Hey, have a great week!- John
This little painting is my Homage to Early Spring for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY...
Garden is a great topic for Illustration Friday! Here's a little fairy gardener. I hope your's is a great weekend and week to follow!- John
"Leap", the theme for ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY . This is a photo of a little lidded box I designed for a Limoges company several years ago... I never got one for myself but I still, sort of, think of it as a self portrait. I hope you have a great weekend and a great week!- John
"Multiple", the theme for Illustration Friday is exemplified by a bunch of little fairies on tree limbs. I hope this is appropriate.
In a World...Where Goatees and Baseball caps have disappeared mysteriously... Humble, Infallible, Honest, Hardworking Scientists (who are never wrong about ANYTHING) work overtime on new theories to explain the stupendous cultural loss of those treasured, fashionable decorations of the human body, the Goatee and the Baseball Cap!!!!
This picture is for Illustration Friday's theme this week which is "Blanket". It's a good theme! I haven't ever done an image with that in mind... but I think I will. I like the word "blanket" as in a "Blanket of leaves" or a "blanket of snow" or "mist". I like the sound of the word too. 
