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  • Your Uncle Bee

    I am a huge fan of honey bees. I don’t particularly like honey that much but I love bees for what they do.
    If it was legal in Toledo, I’d keep bees but alas it is not.

    You can thank a honey bee for your even being here and if you would, think of them as family members.
    In fact, consider this your Uncle Bee. 😀

    Size : 6-inches by 4-inches
    Ink, watercolor on antique photo from early 1900s
    the story of what inspired this piece will be sent with your artwork

    Shown larger than the actual piece for detail.
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  • On August 3, 1901, Jebidiah Wrote the Funniest Joke EVER

    I am absolutely loved this guy’s face. He’s got the tiniest little smirk, like he knows something you don’t and it’s REALLY funny. He really looked like he was just holding back from busting into laughter.
    I imagine he was a pretty awesome fellow to know in walking life.

    My thought was that he wrote the funniest joke EVER – and now we have to wonder what it is.

    Size : 6.5-inches by 4.25-inches
    Ink, watercolor on antique photo from early 1900s
    the story of what inspired this piece will be sent with your artwork

    Shown larger than the actual piece for detail.
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  • Stalker Moon

    We were watching the movie “Arthur” and there’s this bit where the love interest of Arthur tells him when she was a little girl, she believed the moon followed her and it meant she was going to be something special.
    It got me thinking – what if it wasn’t an optical illusion, what if the moon really was following you?
    How creepy would that be?

    Size : 6.5-inches by 4.25-inches
    Ink, watercolor on antique photo from early 1900s
    the story of what inspired this piece will be sent with your artwork

    Shown larger than the actual piece for detail.
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  • Red Ribbon Guy


    I wanted to do something different with this guy.
    He had the usual hair and the usual suit and the usual expression you see over and over and over in vintage photos (yes i know why people rarely smiled in these old photos ).
    And so I wanted to make him special, unique even.
    Everyone deserves that.
    So i started with some amazing blonde hair then it needed something…. a hat? No…. a RIBBON.
    And here you have Stanley with his amazing hair with this amazing ribbon.
    He will be the envy of all your other art on your walls.
    Size : 6.5-inches by 4.25-inches
    Ink, watercolor on antique photo from early 1900s
    the story of what inspired this piece will be sent with your artwork

    Shown larger than the actual piece for detail.
    #specialpeople            
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  • When I was 5, I pretended I was a tiger with a very long tail

    I was the youngest in my family.
    My oldest sister was 24 years old when I was born, and my other sister was 10 years old. Needless to say, no one was really interested in playing with me so I spent a lot of time with pets and on my own.
    One thing I vividly remember is LOVING to get a piece of yarn and be a tiger …. a tiger with a long tail.
    I could do that for hours…yeah I was a weird kid, it didn’t get any better when I got older. 😀

    And I love making Artist Trading Cards or ACEO’s (    Art Cards, Editions and Originals) – you’ve been warned.
    Size : 2.5-inches by 3.5-inches


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  • Myrtle and Edna Retired Underwater


    When I was 13-years old, my father was in a coma and basically dying in a VA hospital.
    My mom and I made the drive out there every day but I couldn’t stay in his room for long because then the nurses would come take me out and I was supposed to wait in this horrible waiting room. Since I never did what I was supposed to anyway, it was a no-brainer I wasn’t staying there.

    I went wondering around the hospital grounds (as a parent now this makes me cringe my mother never advised me wandering around at 13 wasn’t a good idea) and I wound up in this separate building just at the edge of the hospital grounds where they had elderly people with no where to go. They weren’t sick enough to be in a hospital but they either didn’t have family or family didn’t want them.

    I remember this one lady named Dorothy stuffed a note in my hand with her daughter’s first name and phone number on it.
    She begged me to call.
    Sure, I was a kid, ask me and I’ll do it.
    She told me to call her daughter to come get her like she promised.
    I did when I got home and got in trouble making a long distance call without permission AND the lady on the other end of the phone chewed me out and said she didn’t have time to take care of her mother and her was FINE.
    She totally hissed that last word at me like she was a snake woman on the other end of the phone.
    And no, her mother wasn’t fine.
    She was skinny and had sores all over her legs. I’d never seen anything like it.
    So, during the 2 weeks my father was in a coma on the downhill slide to having his life support turned off, I went to the home every day and talked to people. Weirdly enough, it was a good diversion for what was going on in my own life and I hope it brought a little diversion to theirs.

    That’s what I was thinking about in this improved photo. Myrtle and Edna decided their rotten kids weren’t going to come visit them anyway – so they retired underwater where it was beautiful.

    Size : 3.25-inches by 4.25-inches
    Ink, watercolor on photo from the late 1960s
    the story of what inspired this piece will be sent with your artwork
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  • Where is My Sister? Twins Series Artwork

    This is Violet. She is looking for her sister Daisy. I have done several paintings of “The Twins” and this is the first where they weren’t together.
    #creepy, #horror

    Size : 6-inches by 9-inches
    Ink, watercolor on 140lb cold pressed paper.
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  • Martha’s Actual Rule for Life

    I met Martha not long ago and she’s really an awesome lady.
    I did a painting about Martha’s rule – “Don’t be Mean” because of something she said, and then I realized it started with a negative (“Don’t”) – Martha wouldn’t do that and then she herself told me that her rule would be “Be Kind”.
    I like Martha’s rule and it’s really something we should all subscribe to.
    Size : 6.5-inches by 4.25-inches
    Ink, watercolor on antique photo from the 1900-1920s
    the story of what inspired this piece will be sent with your artwork
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  • You Will Obey Me In a Pig’s Eye…. Improved Photo

    Skinney and I were watching this television show where this woman was living a very submissive marriage role. I mean her husband had it made as far as he was concerned. She wasn’t even allowed to eat with him and the children at the table because women weren’t equal to men and the son’s repeated what their father thought. Just wow.
    I imagined a different marriage where she was told she would obey and she rolled her eyes and kinda went pffffttttttttttt hahahahahaha in his face. 😀


    Size : 6.5-inches by 4.25-inches
    Ink, watercolor on antique photo from the 1900-1920s
    the story of what inspired this piece will be sent with your artwork
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