The latest and greatest from Tina for Lloyd on the tenth anniversary of his birth. The theme this year was the violin since that is what Lloyd has been learning this school year. See a recent recital here. Sharp-eyed music aficionados may notice that the music around the band is “Happy Birthday.”
Birthday Crown No. 10 by Tina Garceau
Birthday Crown No. 10 detail
Here is Birthday Crown No. 8 by Tina Garceau. Lloyd was and still is heavily into Trick My Truck which is a reality/makeover series where these guys essentially trick out some trucks. So his eighth birthday had an 18-wheeler theme.
The shot below shows the side bands of the crown which carry the theme all around the wearer’s head.
Birthday Boy
It’s our son’s birthday this week so we figured we would show some of his birthday crowns which Tina makes every year. The trick is figuring out the crown’s theme. Usually it’s based on Lloyd’s current obsession. Music was the theme for his 4th.
The crown’s are digital collages created with a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator. They are printed on card stock and cut out by hand.
Crown No. 4 detail
After tripping the light fantastic, Mickey & Sylvia have worked up an appetite and find a place to tie on a feed-bag…or do they? CO2 Comics presents the latest adventure of Monkey & Bird!
Check it out HERE!
by Tina Garceau
This is one of Tina’s brilliant, digital collages combining vintage clip-art, colors and textures.
by Joe Williams
Monkey & Bird deal badly with back-to-back blizzards. ‘Nuff said!
Monkey & Bird shake a tail feather in a new installment of Monkey & Bird today at CO2 Comics!
In order to enhance your enjoyment of the strip, may I suggest that you head on over to Amazon and download the MP3 of Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind and Fire (featuring the Emotions.) It’s the song I listened to as I was working on the strip. Yes, the obvious thing would have been to go with a selection from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, but nothing did it for me like Boogie Wonderland.
As a special bonus, here’s one of the sketches from today’s installment:
Here’s a card I did back in the late-’80s/early ’90s that crams together three holidays. Seems I had slacked off somewhat and was in need of catching up on my holiday correspondence!
This one was done in technical pens probably on bristol board.
