Glorious Generation, Fun-A-Day 11

The Glorious Generation was born between 1648 and 1673. Bio info is taken from Wikipedia.

Elihu Yale 1649 - 1721; Elihu Yale was a British merchant and philanthropist, Governor of the East India Company settlement in Bengal, at Calcutta and Chennai and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor.

Sir William Phips 1651 - 1695; Sir William Phips was a shipwright, ship's captain, treasure hunter, military leader, and the first royally-appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

William Randolph 1650 - 1711; William Randolph was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and government of the British colony of Virginia. He moved to Virginia sometime between 1669 and 1673, and married Mary Isham a few years later.

Francis Daniel Pastorius 1651 - 1720; Francis Daniel Pastorius was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German settlement and the gateway for subsequent emigrants from Germany.

John Wise 1652 - 1725; John Wise was a Congregationalist reverend and political leader in Massachusetts during the American colonial period.

William Byrd 1652 - 1704; William Byrd I was a native of Shadwell, London, England. His father, John Bird was a London goldsmith with ancestral roots in Cheshire, England. (I think the reference was actually his son, William Byrd II).

Samuel Sewall 1652 - 1730; Samuel Sewall was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph, which criticized slavery.

James Blair 1655 - 1743; James Blair D.D. was a Scottish born clergyman in the Church of England. He was also a missionary and an educator, best known as the founder of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.

Hannah Dustin 1657 - 1730; Hannah Duston was a 40-year-old colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of eight during King William's War who was taken captive with her newborn daughter during the Raid on Haverhill.

Peter Schuyler 1657 - 1724; Pieter Schuyler was the first mayor of Albany, New York and the head of the Albany Commissioners for Indian Affairs. He also served as acting Governor of New York in 1709 and from 1719 – 1720.

Thomas Brattle 1658 - 1713; Thomas Brattle was a well-educated and prosperous Boston merchant who served as treasurer of Harvard College, and was a member of the intellectually elite Royal Society. (The reference might have been Increase Mather).

Samuel Cranston 1659 - 1727; Samuel Cranston was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations during the first quarter of the 18th century.

Cotton Mather 1663 - 1728; Cotton Mather, FRS was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

Robert "King" Carter 1663 - 1732; Robert "King" Carter, of Lancaster County, was an American businessman and colonist in Virginia and became one of the wealthiest men in the colonies.

Gurdon Saltonstall 1666 - 1724; Gurdon Saltonstall was governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1708 to 1724. Born into a distinguished family, Saltonstall became an accomplished and eminent Connecticut pastor.

Lewis Morris 1671 - 1746; Lewis Morris, chief justice of New York and British governor of New Jersey, was the first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York.

Rovert Beverly 1673 - 1722; Robert Beverley, Jr. was an important historian of early colonial Virginia. He was born in Jamestown and died in King and Queen County, Virginia. He was also a substantial planter of the time as well as an official in the colonial government.

Benjamin Colman 1673 - 1747; was the companion of Cotton Mather at the celebrated school of Ezekiel Cheever.

International Peers

King William III; William III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic.

Duke of Marlborough 1650 - 1722; was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs. Rising from a lowly page at the court of the House of Stuart, he served James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and early 1680s, earning military and political advancement through his courage and diplomatic skill. Churchill's role in defeating the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 helped secure James on the throne, yet just three years later he abandoned his Catholic patron for the Protestant Dutchman, William of Orange. Honoured for his services at William's coronation with the earldom of Marlborough, he served with further distinction in the early years of the Nine Years' War, but persistent charges of Jacobitism brought about his fall from office and temporary imprisonment in the Tower. It was not until the accession of Queen Anne in 1702 that Marlborough reached the zenith of his powers and secured his fame and fortune.

Queen Anne 1665 - 1714; Anne became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719; Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.

Peter the Great 1672 - 1725; Peter the Great, Peter I or Pyotr Alexeyevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his half-brother.

Cavalier Generation, Fun-A-Day 10

The Cavalier Generation, born in colonial America between 1615 - 1647. Bio info below portraits is from Wikipedia.

Mary Dyer 1616 - 1660; Mary Barrett Dyer was an English Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.

Arent Van Curler 1619 - 1667; Arent van Curler, later van Corlaer, was the cousin of Kiliaen van Rensselaer and undertook the management of Rensselaer's patroonship Rensselaerswyck in the Dutch colony of New Netherland perhaps as early as 1630, and continued there until 1646.

John Carter 1620 - 1669; Father of Robert "King" Carter I.

Josias Fendall c1620 - 1687; Lieutenant-General Josias Fendall, Esq., was the 4th Proprietary Governor of Maryland. He was born in England, and came to the Province of Maryland. He was the progenitor of the Fendall family in America.

Don't remember who this is, either John Hull (1624 - 1683) or John Pynchon (1626 - 1703).

William Stoughton 1631 - 1701; William Stoughton was a colonial magistrate and administrator in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was in charge of what have come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials, first as the Chief Justice ...

Michael Wigglesworth 1631 - 1705; Michael Wigglesworth was a Puritan minister and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early New England.

Increase Mather 1639 - 1723; Increase Mather was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay.

George Keith 1638 - 1707; George Keith was a Scottish missionary.

Benjamin Church 1639 - 1718; Dr. Benjamin Church was effectively the first Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, serving as the "Chief Physician & Director General" of the Medical Service of the Continental Army from July 27, 1775 to October 17, 1775.

Jacob Leisler 1640 - 1691; Jacob Leisler was a German born American colonist. He helped create the Huguenot settlement of New Rochelle in 1688 and later served as the acting Lieutenant Governor of New York.

Metacomet c. 1642 - 1676; Metacomet, also known as King Philip or Metacom, or occasionally Pometacom, was a war chief or sachem of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War, a widespread uprising against English colonists in New England.

Solomon Stoddard 1643 - 1729; Solomon Stoddard was the pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, MA. He succeeded the Rev. Eleazer Mather, marrying his widow around 1670.

William Kidd 1645 - 1701; Captain William Kidd was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

Nathaniel Bacon 1647 - 1676; Nathaniel Bacon was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.

Joseph Dudley 1647 - 1720; Joseph Dudley was an English colonial administrator. A native of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and the son of one of its founders, Dudley had a leading role in the administration of the Dominion of New England.

International Cohorts

Aurangzeb 1618 - 1707; was the sixth Mughal Emperor and ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent. His reign lasted for 49 years from 1658 until his death in 1707. Aurangzeb was a notable expansionist and during his reign, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent. He was among the wealthiest of the Mughal rulers.

King Charles II of England 1630 - 1685; Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War.

John Locke 1632 - 1704; John Locke FRS, widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

King Louis XIV of France 1638 - 1715; Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death.

William Penn 1644 - 1718; William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Jewish Philosophers of the Middle Ages - Fun-A-Day 9

Two illustrations I did when listening to Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy podcast.

Judah Halevi was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in Palestine in 1141.

Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra was born at Tudela, Navarre in 1089, and died c. 1167, apparently in Calahorra. He was one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the Middle Ages.

Galactic Brethren - Fun-A-Day 7 & 8

My friend Ryan asked me to do a comic for his hip-hop project, Galactic Brethren, after listening to the album I was spirited away to a dark and unforgiving realm, above is what I was inspired to make. The image below is of the day we spent in the South Side making copies of the comic and hanging it at local establishments.

Fun-a-Day 4, 5 & 6

I have stopped using this blog. I got the tumbler, the face book, the google plus, got it all and this blog seems like the one that gets the least attention. I thought why not use it for Fun-A-Day this month, at least it will get some use. I work on my art everyday but I don't always get around to posting it on the internet all of the time, but am regular enough. I knew the content creation would be the easy part of this project.One thing I don't do too often is write about my work. I am one of those "let the art speak for itself" types, and I stick to that, but I was going to plan and work on my writing craft a little bit during the Fun-A-Day process.

The images below are of three different days that I worked on a painting on the wall of my dining room. They don't look that different, but it looks better to me with each one, a subtle addition of layers. My roommate works on the boat in the painting, I told him I would finish it before he goes back to work. He got called in today, so I have one more day to have the finished product.

Fun a Day 2 & 3 - The first dynasty of Egypt

This comic took me two days to complete. Not exactly happy with it, but working through a new process and crappy paper.

Fun a Day - January 1st

I drew the Egyptian on January 1st for Fun-a-day. Will get to posting the others soon.