Louisiana Lori Thomas as Demeter

ARTIST: William Louis ("Bill") McDonald Senior.

COMPANY: Argonaut-GreyWolf.

CLIENT: Me. I intend for this Sketch-a-Doodle render to be used as a sketch illustration of beautiful women ranging between the ages of sixteen and forty-five.

PURPOSE: To show off my pencil sketch skills to all the girls attending a Dana Hills High Schooler's Monarch Bay beer party on a Saturday night after an early April surfing contest down at Trestles to the south of San Clemente. To subtly and intentionally piss off the jocks with my surfer wiles, to get their girlfriends naked or at least stripped down to their undies, and to capture the attention of their wealthy, yet neglected, moms. In 1978, short, long-haired and skinny-ripped, I wanted to be a legend. By 1979, I was.

YEAR: 1978 on the first Saturday night of the month in April.

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MEDIA: One graphite #2 pencil found in a kitchen counter drawer.

THE PROJECT'S PURPOSE: To add the Greco-Roman Goddess Demeter to my collection of the pantheon of the Olympian gods and goddesses. Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest, grain, and fertility. She is one of the Twelve Olympian gods that live on Mount Olympus. Because she was the goddess of the harvest, she was very important to the farmers and peasant people of Greece.

She was also called Deo (Δηώ). Her cult titles include Sito (Σιτώ), "she of the Grain", as the giver of food or grain, and Thesmophoros (θεσμός, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law; φόρος, phoros: bringer, bearer), "giver of customs" and/or "legislator", in association with the secret female-only festival called the Thesmophoria.

Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a religious tradition that predated the Olympian pantheon, and which may have its roots in the Mycenaean period circa 1400–1200 BC. Demeter was often considered to be the same figure as the Anatolian goddess Cybele, and she was identified with the Roman goddess Ceres.

NOTES: Lori Thomas was brand new to Dana Hills High School with her family (recently divorced mother and two brothers) having just moved her to Laguna Niguel, California. Her Louisiana accent was so fierce that our entire class nicknamed her "Louisiana Lori." She was originally born in Shreveport, or Baton Rouge and I with just a week to go before my seventeenth birthday, had impulsively begun sketching her face in order to "Break the ice" with this shy, somewhat willowy and soon to grow really tall, new girl.

We became fast friends (My first son Travis had just been born via my mom's superhot thirty-six-year-old friend) as I was very busy earning money by selling logos and complex commercial advertising art.

LOCATION: This simple pencil sketch was created and drawn at Kenny Redmond's house (Ken's sister Suzi surfed with me daily) in Monarch Bay, Monarch Beach, California.