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Her job was simple. Find the suspicious balloon with the irksome grin. The journey was dangerous. Only someone like ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ was qualified. She packed a basket with the necessary supplies, placed the cape around her shoulders and was on her way.
How did she get to this point, in the image above?
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It has been awhile.
some festive presidential items/images of mine from my shop.

Above are some photos I took on the fourth of July. The day was spent at my parents, making shrimp kebobs and toasting marshmallows (in between the rain), talking, and fireworks. I’m not usually one for them. They bore me. Normally I see them […]

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This was a painting I did of my former favorite coffee/tea mug. “Former”, because it soon fell of my countertop the next day. It was a good cup. Never complained. Brightened my mornings*. I tried glue but nothing worked. The head of the horse**, which was the handle, broke off and wouldn’t hold.
I have […]

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and…
PRide and PRejudice portraits. (movie version if you can tell)

The BBC version of Mark and Lizzie are almost finished.

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I love to color my images traditionally with paint. Sometimes though, I’ll go the digital route and color a drawing in Photoshop.

Later on today it is back to the tubes of paint to finish off a few pieces.

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Reading this post was the time of your life, am I right?

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…yellow and purple, orange and blue.  The latter being my favorite color combo.
This piece was painted long ago in my Moleskine sketchbook with the pages thick enough for paint. I’ve used quite a few of these and my last page in my most recent one was used up. I looked around my local shops but […]

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Getting some paperwork and errands done (post office, art store) today. This week is already much improved from last week. Soon I’ll have time to finish up all my almost completed drawings and paintings like Fred here. I’m painting his portrait in egg tempera. Why? because I have some extra eggs in the fridge and […]

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Besides painting overly excited food containers I did remember that it was Earth Day/Pennsylvania Primary day, and did work on some political portraits. Hopefully everyone in PA voted that day!

Hill and Barack are BFFs. The news media just doesn’t know it. President and Vice President or Vice President and President? perhaps…

and Johnny.
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