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The Story of Nurse Zombie

Nurse zombie was a very dedicated RN and then one day “that” patient was brought in.
The one that bit her.

She’d had patients flail and even bite before but this one was different – it was like he was tasting her.

She cleaned her wound but 2 days later she ran a fever.
Then 5 days after the bite she called in and said she was really in pain and thought she may need a few extra days off it was just a bad stomach bug or maybe even the flu.
Then she didn’t call in at all on the 6th day.
On the 7th day after the bite, she came to work as always and people ran away in horror.
She died sometime during the 5th or 6th day and was now a zombie.
Sometime during the night

Size : 6-inches by 9-inches
Ink, watercolor on 140lb cold pressed paper.
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Zombie School Boy

There was something about this kid.
Maybe it was his sleepy, know-it-all eyes or maybe it was the fact I just really was fired up to paint a zombie today but this kid just screamed ZOMBIFY ME!
And everyone knows I always do what people ask (my partner just stroked when I typed that)
And so, I give you “Zombie School Boy”.

Size : 2.25-inches by 3.25-inches
Ink, watercolor on antique photo from the 1954
the story of what inspired this piece will be sent with your artwork

Piece is shown much larger for detail.
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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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The Story of the BBWs that Dance to Keep the Motion in the Ocean

This piece was too big to put on my scanner and my camera was just sucking and washing out the colors. Skinney offered to throw my camera at the wall because he’s good like that, but I did a little video instead 🙂

This is a video description of a 10-inch by 13-inch watercolor of 3 bbw divas dancing on the ocean shore.

Many people believe the moon controls the waves of the ocean.
Not true!
Did you know it’s three blue goddesses that come to dance on the shore with their seaweed hair waving in the ocean breeze.
They dance for the moon and make her smile.
They stomp and wiggle and they dance to a tune only they can hear – I’m pretty sure it’s techno and they keep the motion of the ocean going in and out as it should.

Size : 13-inches by 10-inches
Ink, watercolor on 140lb cold pressed paper.
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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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