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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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  • Tina is No Good at Starting Conversations –

    I actually painted this about 2 years ago when the actual incident that lead to this painting occurred.
    There was a stepmother who absolutely ignored her stepdaughter.
    In over 6 years, not one single email, text message, letter or phone call to her step daughter that she claimed she wanted to be part of their family.
    She instructed her own children to have little to do with the step-daughter and being dutiful kids, they did.
    The stepmother would ask others about her stepdaughter even when the girl was in the room.
    If the stepdaughter spoke to her stepmother, she would be met with a grunt or silence.
    Every photo of the step-daughter was removed from the walls of the house save one left the father’s study.
    And when the daughter confronted her father and asked him to intervene and please talk to his wife and help everyone find some common ground, her father simply told her that her stepmother wasn’t good at starting conversations.

    I feel bad for them both, they missed out on knowing a great kid 🙂

    Size : 11-inches by 14-inches
    Ink, watercolor on 140lb hot pressed paper.

    Tina is not the actual name of the person I am referring to in this story.
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  • Dead Rita

    I have 2 sisters. One I really don’t know well and from what I have come to know, well I don’t want to know her. I don’t delight in the misfortunes of others and anyone that does just can’t be in my life.
    The other sister, was creative, funny, always saw the positive, very compassionate and did the most amazing calligraphy lettering.
    I used to be very close to until the late 1980’s when she become someone I really didn’t know anymore.
    I couldn’t trust her to be truthful with me about anything and then she started stealing my identity and she fell hard into drugs to the point she abandoned both her children and was prostituting herself.
    I’ve gotten one letter from her during yet another brief time of sobriety that never lasts and had probably two conversations with her in the past 20 years. I have to just reconcile myself that the sister I had so much fun with, could count on for anything and really was my sister – is for all intents and purposes dead.

    Size : 6-inches by 9-inches
    Ink, watercolor on 140lb cold pressed paper.
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  • Hey You, Get Up and Feed Us Said the Cats at 5 Freakin’ 30 in the morning

    Here’s the story:
    Are you owned by a cat?
    We are.
    3 furry, pushy monsters who think early every morning at the crack of nothing they need food in their bowls right then.
    And they are relentless too with many years of honing their annoying to perfection.
    Of course we give in and spoil them rotten.
    Otherwise they’ll kick us out of the house.

    Size : 2.5-inches by 3.5-inches
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  • Very Bad People ACEO Original Set of 4

    ACEO Card Set

    I bumbled onto the Crime Library to read more about the Mountain Meadows Massacre and there was this other article I clicked on and it was the Top Ten Bestiality Cases. It was mugshots and a short synopsis of what these people did and I was just reading a couple thinking wow these are bad people and then I drew them and wrote my take on the synopsis on the back (basically an even shorter synopsis).
    #badpeople

    very bad people
    Backs of the ACEO Cards
    very bad people

    Click the ACEO link at the top of the page to go to Ebay and place a bid 🙂

  • New ACEO Cards Avialable Today

    Good Morning and Hello!
    Before these go up on Ebay (after we make tortillas today) I wanted to give you a little preview of the fun of ACEO cards. 🙂

    Left to Right Top Row

    ►Mrs. Cockroach got a new dress.
    ► She Could only look down her nose at them – inspired by a real person I met who serious had her head back looking down at people at an event we were at, people of lesser means made her “uncomfortable”….
    ► Boss Pear runs the Fruit Bowl – inspired by a pear that got moldy and ruined other fruits in the bowl.
    ► Siamese Cat – because we love ’em.
    ► These boots are made for walkin’ (always loved that campy song).
    ► Really ugly doll – reminiscent of a doll someone made for me.
    #outsiderart #ooakart
    6-ACEO-Cards

  • He Lied Every 10 Minutes 7 Days a Week

    Have you ever known a liar, how about a really prolific one?
    I have to realize I have been engaging conversations with someone that cannot go 10 minutes without another lie just flying out.
    And he lies about really dumb stuff too like lying is just part of conversation with him.
    Some people are scary.

    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
    mixed media Artist Trading Card 🙂

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  • The Kid in Aisle B Seat 4 On My Last Flight


    I have a confession, I don’t like most children. I don’t find all children automatically amazing because they are kids.
    I am however insanely crazy for my own kids and I do like a lot of children because individually they are awesome.
    The last time I flew, I had the absolutely delightful experience of the brat from hell in the seat behind me and when he wasn’t screaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaming  his Momma wouldn’t give him a toy or a snacky cake or a soda (yeah, this kid totally needed more sugar in his life), he was kicking the back of my seat. His long suffering mother kept reminding him Christmas was just around the corner and to be good.
    Yeah that worked, thanks Mom.
    I have never been so glad to deplane a flight in my LIFE.
    #brats, #awfulchildren #flying

    I love doing Artist Trading Cards or ACEO’s (Art Cards, Editions and Originals) – you’ve been warned.

    Size : 2.5-inches by 3.5-inches
    mixed media Artist Trading Card 🙂
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  • Black Cat Finds Red Paint`

    This is to commemorate the time that our lovely black cat Noodle, went strolling in the red paint and on some drying paintings and then she decided to jump in the window and there were little paw prints everywhere.
    #cats #art

    I love doing Artist Trading Cards or ACEO’s (Art Cards, Editions and Originals) – you’ve been warned.

    Size : 2.5-inches by 3.5-inches
    mixed media Artist Trading Card 🙂
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    <— there are no green edges on this piece – i just can’t scan straight to save my life!