Murals in progress and mural designs.

School Girl

She is the fourth Vollrath and the third generation of Vollrath to go to this school.  She is happy to start school. I take a picture with her and her father. Then I watch as her mother, father and baby sister go with her into the school. I walk back home then thinking about how in a few years she has made me a better person. She is now a school girl, a page turns in the book of her life. I love you Cordelia Olivia Vollrath.

The eyes of my grand daughter

You are a dream of a new life, a blank page that a life will be written on. You are a little sister, a niece, a daughter, a grand daughter and a great grand daughter. You are an American. I long to look into your eyes with my eyes.

I love you and all that you will be. We share a last name and a bit of DNA and I hope I live long enough so you will remember me. I hope if you are to have memories of me that they will be good memories.

I love you more than all the stars in the heavens and atoms in the universe. I hope you will love me.

I Love Her

My newborn grand daughter Melody Jane Vollrath. She shares her middle name with my mother.

This tiny photo was pulled from eBay after I won the bid on this Burt Rutan signed poster.

A fan of all things space related I'm creating a small space museum for the background of my small webcam studio. Before the end of the month "Retro Rocket" will hit it's 100 show on YouTube with a new look.

Grand Daughter Takes the Anger Away

Two dogs keep in a tiny pen, that were neglected and under feed got lose in my small town of Kingsville on Friday October 5, 2012 at night and attacked every dog and cat in town that they made contact with. The two dogs tried to kill "Panda" a small black and white dog that belongs to my son Micheal.

My youngest son was at work at the time when my daughter-in-law Amanda was letting the dogs out when the two neglected dogs attacked our family pet. Amanda is with child. My third grandchild.

As the two dogs tear at Panda and slam him into the ground, Amanda must get her small family pet away from the two Boxer mix dogs. A short time later I hear my daughter-in-law come in the front door of my parent's house. "Where's Robert ? I need Robert." My mother comes to the computer room as I am already in the hallway. "Oh Bobby, Amanda needs your help!"

I walk into the living room and see Amanda with the small frighten dog. Panda is covered in dog drool.
I look the dog over but can't find any wounds. I think about rabies as I turn the small dog over in my hands.

The next day Amanda takes Panda to an Animal Hospital and a Vet finds a long gash on the dog's back that both Amanda and I missed.

Yesterday, October 6th, I was angry most of the day. Not at the neglected dogs but at the owner of the dogs. I was angry at the town leaders for letting animals run wild in town and doing nothing when dangerous dogs get lose and attack family ( a cat was attacked next door and two dogs down the street)
pets.

I'm angry at the Johnson County Missouri Police who do as little as possible for the town of Kingsville.
I'm angry until my grand daughter comes back home from a visit with her cousin and the two of us make this video. She tells me not to be angry:)

Two Finished Murals

Up Against a Brick Wall

More to come....

Holden MO Mural Update June 5 2012

A Dragon over Mars

This was a hard video to make as I limit myself to 10 minutes a day making You Tube videos. I ended up with just 5 seconds of video I could use. I'm thinking of making my Retro Rocket videos no longer than 10 seconds each.

Reflections on the helmet dome caused all kinds of problems.

The Space X Dragon capsule with the red Earth background made me think of Mars. Thanks NASA and Space X and the ISS.

Got to Love the Space X

Long hours of stress on ladders painting murals has made cramps in my hands and slowed work on a graphic novel and other art projects. For some reason doing space videos calms my nerves,

The above video is my favorite of my space videos. I use black screen instead of blue or green screen for my space videos. Black screen doesn't need complex lighting set ups. I hide light bleeds in black backgrounds and with my tan hat.

Mars-One for Fun

trying to do short space videos

The Moon Hoax Hoax

Trying to make a series of Space related videos on You Tube called Retro Rocket (add a number).

more unicorns

I'm trying to create 777 unicorns on the mural by the end of summer.

Golden Unicorn Mural Update

Working on the Fox and Raccoon unicorns today.

Deer on a Mountain

This is a lucky photo of a deer on the Barr Trail on Pike's Peak. This photo isn't edited and happened when I was about to take a photo of my oldest son and his sister-in-law. My son Mark points to the deer as I turn in place and take the picture.

Train Station Mural Update

I added the more rail road ties to the painting yesterday.

The Zoo and T-Ball

"I don't want to play T-Ball!"

My grand daughter and I are taking the long drive to the zoo and she has T-Ball practice after our outing.

"It will be fun, you should try it a while longer before you quit."

"Grand Dad, you never played T-Ball. You know nothing about T-Ball."

"I played baseball and that is something like T-Ball. We're at the zoo now we'll talk about this later."

The zoo was only opened for another hour when we got out of my car and unloaded Cordelia's new stroller. The big bike wheels and wide body of the stroller just fit inside my trunk. We saw a few animals and had a picnic lunch and rode the Merry Go Round three times.

On the way home I needed to pick up medicine for my mother.

more to come......

Murals in Holden Missouri

Why I've been absent from this blog for a while. The top photos are of the Unicorn Mural and the bottom photos are of the M. K. & T. Depot in Holden Missouri. These works in progress I hope will be done sooner than later.

Final version of my response to Spacevidcast

I'm still terrible onscreen but I'm getting better. 

Shot this several times and wanted it to be more polished but I must get back to drawing on the Graphic Novel. Always best to put a time limit on webcam videos.