Category Archives: San Jose

>Sketchbook History Tour – 1994

>1994 was a big year. It was the year I gave up on a path and started to forge a new one.  In May of 1994 we moved from San Jose, California where I was teaching part-time at 3 Community Colleges AND working as a manager at Eulipia Restaurant to Broken Arrow, a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma.  


Here are some last sketchbook drawings I did in California.  
A Drawing of a Woman as a Sculpture 

A Woman as a 3D Painting Facing off Against Singing Snake

A Teenager Contemplating The Finger of God

In the next weeks I will show some of the images from my time in Tulsa as an artist/animator in my new job. You will see an interesting change but at the same time you will see that I never really change ALL that much. 


Drawings by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

>I Draw in Church Sunday

>It’s ‘I draw in church’ Sunday.  Sometimes I am not drawing a scene or person in church, but an idea that germinated from the sermon.  This one had something to do with prayer, but I don’t remember the specifics (it was 19 years ago, give me a break).





Drawn 3/10/91 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, San Jose, California.  We went to ‘WesPres’ for almost a decade before we moved to Tulsa in 1994.  It had the usual amount of drama, Pastors coming and going, etc. but more importantly it had a fantastic group of friends who supported us and our children and allowed us to support them as well.  I look back on those days fondly.

Drawn by Marty Coleman
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