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Smile*
"And this is why you must brush and floss them twice a day, children."
(06 Nov 2012)

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Airplanes*
Stan suggested I might "care to CENSOR or warn gentle, sensitive or insane people there's a big world out there"!
(06 Nov 2012)

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Swoop*
{unfortunately, mounting tape bled though on this copy; I chose to leave it as is - SB,III}
(06 Nov 2012)

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Nixon/Fly*
(06 Nov 2012)

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Africa*
(06 Nov 2012)

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The Automotive Journalist
"'The Automotive Journalist'.  I did this one for the brilliant and funny Road & Track journalist-race reporter Henry Manney."
(06 Nov 2012)

[* - Sketches named by SB,III (for reference only).]

"Can of Beans" watercolor-tempera, 1957.  When I started freelancing I asked art directors what sort of samples they'd like to see?  They all said, "Oh, anything...can of beans."  When I showed the same art directors my can of beans, they asked "What's this?"  "Well, to show..."  "Got anything else?"  It was my first and last painting of a can of beans.

{Andy Warhol, move over! - SB,III}

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"Combat Steam Engine", ink-pencil-watercolor, 1973.  Back in 1959 pal Robert Cumberford and I conjured up the article "The International Automobile Games."  New production cars would be armed with 50-caliber machine guns, set loose in a giant arena to shoot it out in two dimensional dog fights.  The surviving car would be acclaimed "Car of the Year".  Sales would sky rocket!  Surprise!  No magazine would touch it.  Years later I changed tactics; "Why not arm hot steam engines and...?"  But figured the feature would be more salable if I sent them racing.  Road & Track printed "Les 24 Heures du Choo Choo" in November 1981.
{See Les 24 Heures du Choo Choo.}

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"Threesome" or "Menage a Trois", oils 1971.  Now I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea about that title.  No sexual innuendos whatsoever.  No sir.  Pablo Picasso fancied painting two faces with one profile back then.  So I decided to go Pabs baby one more and paint three (3) faces in one.  Woah!  So all of you folks in the Moral Squads can put away your torches and pitch forks and stand down, at ease.  Dismissed!  Fast march, hep hep hep hep!

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"Bugatti World",  pencil-watercolor 1983.

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"Hands & Feet".  pencil-watercolor, 2011.

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"Psychedelic Diogenes Babe"  Prismacolor pencil-watercolor, 1973.

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"Rockin' Head", pencil and watercolor, 2003, roughs for an animated MTV video.  They didn't buy.  So I took my drawings and went home,
and they can't look at them any more!  You can.  But they can't.  Nyah!

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"Jim-Jam Retro Sports Car", 2003, pencil and watercolor.

{Hey, that's a Cyclops - see the Lucas P-100 tucked between the visor and the blower!}

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"Jim-Jam MK-II Retro Sports Car", 2003, pencil, ink and watercolor.

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"Gladiator & Grand Prix Dragon", 1996, ink and watercolor.jpg

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"Pardner, howdy!" 1998, tempera on magazine ad.  I sent it to the bridge owners along with a note;  "We'll build a massive white hat on top and paint huge black boots on the base, with a star on each.  It'll give your bridge class.  And believe me no one'll ever think it looks like a giant bowlegged cowboy."  I received a form letter back saying they appreciated my interest in their bridge.  God bless them!

{Well, I can easily see why the South Koreans didn't go for that version of the Incheon bridge; it's nekkid (unarmed)!  With Seoul only some 10 miles from the North Korean line, bet a pair of Patton's big pearl-handled six-shooters, set low for cross-drawing, would have sold it! - SB,III:}

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all rights reserved (but to whom and who'd want it?)

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"Shecks! Dad burn!", 1989, ink and watercolor.

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"Sir! Sir! The ship's loaded!" 1979, pencil on yellow paper, published in National Lampoon magazine.

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"Off camber", pencil and watercolor, 1995.

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"Truckin' On Down That Ol' Limbo Road", 2010, pencil and watercolor.

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"Toyota Avalon Introduction Drawings For Automobile Magazine", 1994, pencil and watercolor.  David E. Davis, Jr. requested that Robert Cumberford and I deliver a "fresh and different" report on the introduction of the new Toyota Avalon.  As such, we decided to include a few comments made by attending journalists, which do not normally get into print.
Unpublished {Gee, I wonder why?. - SB,III:}

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