Talk Like A Pirate Day / Talk Like A Cow Day

Yesterday was Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arr!

Did you celebrate?

What are your favorite pirate sayings?

It's always a fun day, whether you participate or just read/see/listen to what others are doing. In other years I've created art for it and wanted to make something fun again this year. I didn't have an idea before Talk Like A Pirate Day. Then I didn't have an idea for most of yesterday, until a cow (it's always a cow with me) and her parrot popped into my head. The idea for the image didn't come until I had the idea for a pirate saying. Talking like a pirate is not easy! This is the result:

If you missed Talk Like A Pirate Day yesterday, celebrate today instead! Or make today Talk Like A Cow Day - MOO!

Every day should be Talk Like A Cow Day.

How much fun would that be?

It would be hilari-moos!

Happy Talk Like A Cow Day!*

Moo!

*People make up holidays all the time. I make up cow-lidays. Moo!

p.s. I always like it when artists show part of their process, so here's the black line stage to show what it looked like before color was added:

Happy Talk Like A Cow Day! Are you celebrating? I am. MOO! ;)

Zombie Pirates for Talk Like A Pirate Day

Ahoy! Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day! I’ve been working on my pirate painting all week, only it’s a zombie pirate and his zombie chicken friend. Here it is (and below that is the original sketch).

I'll eat ye brains I'll will. Arrr!

This painting started as a sketch I did on the back of a piece of watercolor paper (the front had a different sketch that didn’t work out and some paint from testing colors for a different painting.I also had a speech bubble in the upper left, with the zombie pirate saying, “I’ll eat ye brains, I will. Arrr!”

This be the zombie pirate sketch. Arrr!