Another Sports Section illustration job. The Tampa Bay Rays had an amazing season, last place last year, AL East Champs this year... what a turnaround! I had the pleasure of coming up with a drawing with a "Bandwagon" theme. I included the Manager and one of the players, Evan Longoria (hard to locate good photos of Evan). I spent about 3 days on and off on this one, once again I do the entire thing in Corel Painter 10 with my 12x12 tablet. This year I upgraded to the Imac 24 inch, it makes work like this very enjoyable. I will post the printed version when it's published.

I admit it. I'm a huge fan of Tiger Woods. I played golf for many years (wish I had more time now) and perhaps that gives me an appreciation for how incredibly difficult it is to reach his accomplishments. I can remember watching him on The Mike Douglas Show at 2 years old. I followed his careeer from that point and he just always continued to amaze. And not just for his skills swinging a club. How he handles all the press, distractions and demands on his time, while performing on the golf course... someone like that comes along once every couple hundred years. I'm putting up a drawing I did for the sports section here in Orlando years ago. I hear today he will miss the rest of the year to have knee surgery. I'm giving up golf till that time of his return.