Tag: unusual art

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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Siamese Cat Time Travel Totem Watercolor

I was inspired by this quote I saw: “

“If you want to feel sad, live in the past.
If you want to feel anxious, live in the future.
If you want to feel peaceful, live in the now.”

Somehow that translated in my brain to 3 Siamese cats with the Latin words for past, present and future written on their collars.

So if you wanna time travel in the present – this painting will allow you to do that. 😀

Size : 9-inches by 12-inches
Ink, watercolor on 140lb hot 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

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Tiny Frog Balancing on a Flower 🙂

I was sketching a bright flower and then I thought it should be bending down with a tiny frog on it -just balancing.
and here you go – it happened!
I like his little smile, like “I’ve got this!” and he’s not going to fall off.

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

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I Would Have Liked Her Better – Acrylic on Canvas

And so I was trapped in my seat on an airplane.
Full flight, couldn’t get someone else to trade with me.
One of those nice, quieter jets where the engines don’t drown out the super annoying person next to you.
I was stuck next to this overly nervous, non-stop talking woman who did nothing but spew the most judgmental, rude crap.
Pretty soon it became a game, look at my watch and then count how many times she said “I”.
Over an hour of this, I had learned she thought everyone that didn’t put their hands over their hearts should be shipped out of ‘Merica and thought Fox News was the ONLY true news.
I also learned she had some pretty extreme views on women’s rights (they didn’t need them, they had it good before and really if we loved a man enough to marry him, he could make our decisions for us as god intended) and most importantly, I learned that cable was just a way to show our people soft porno and corrupt us all!
She was making me tired.
Finally when she asked me what I did, I told I wrote musical scores for porn movies.
She turned away and said nothing more. 🙂
Best, last hour of a flight to Toledo, Ohio – EVER.

Size : 3-inches by 5-inches
acrylic paint on acrylic panel

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Star Reacher – Acrylic on Canvas

I think everyone has potential to be amazing.
It’s just a matter of finding the star you want to chase and making a commitment to grasping at it. 🙂

Size : 3-inches by 5-inches
acrylic paint on acrylic panel

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