I had some fun picking out a few of Trump's current, and also defunct associates from his political "mish mash of influence".  The Trump effect rarely seems to be a positive experience, as I have tried to convey in this dismal group.  I used Photoshop to add the background, which added to the ghostly, darker, drearier feel to the piece.  Top, L to R: Melania Trump, Robert Mueller, John Kelly, Sean Spicer.  Bottom, L to R: Steve Bannon, Mitch McConnell, Sarah Sanders, Paul Ryan.

A gentlemen hired me to do some drawings for a book he is putting together for his adopted nephew's Bar Mitzvah.  These all had significance when he was younger.

My sisters took me on a cruise for my 60th birthday in October, and I got a kick, (exasperated) from watching the morning ritual of makeup and doing hair.  Apparently women, like most men, suffer from some thinning (well…hair, unfortunately not bodily) as we mature, and I couldn't help but chuckle as the teasing, fluffing and spraying went on laboriously over an inordinate amount of time to add volume to their manes, and it came pretty quickly to my mind what this year's card would entail for Karen's birthday…some thick, luxurious bangs on a furry llama!

Commission for a Christmas present.  He likes to climb at Joshua Tree National Park.  She prefers to do the camera work.  They both create their own designs in pottery, so I included one of her cups.

Christmas card 2017.  Obviously, my Goldwing was my inspiration this year.

Lauren is leaving Mt Wilson and the Cosmic Cafe this December, and had always hoped to see a ring-tailed cat while living there.  Her wish was never realized, so I drew her one as a small consolation.

Wonder Women was amongst Kristi's favorite movies this year, so this was my weird solution for her card.

My sister Shauna and her husband recently moved to St George, in the southwest corner of Utah, where they are surrounded by stunning ocher, orange and vermillion cliffs and mountains, as well as various critters and varmints...creeping, crawling, hopping, darting, running, and flying…startling everyone who happens to cross their paths while trudging through the Mars-like landscape.

For her birthday card, I couldn't help but think of the Looney Toons Roadrunner, speeding through  similar desert scenes, ever elusive of the hapless coyote, who could never seem to make his acquisitions from ACME work quite as expected in the never ending pursuit of his prey.  Like the roadrunner, birthdays seem to arrive like a blinding flash, faster every year!!

While I love my beast of a Goldwing for long distance traveling comfort and pleasure, my younger brother's desires run somewhat sportier, so for his birthday I Photoshopped (badly) his head onto his dream bike.  It may be as close as he gets to the real thing, but at least it looks like he's having fun, (or scared shitless), depending on your point of view, haha!!