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I recently emerged from a mid-blog crisis and had to flee my studio for a week. Too much exposure to celebrity gossip can destroy your brain and blight your soul, so I had to take a little break to heal myself. I hope my readers understand. My regularly scheduled gossip-inspired posts will return tomorrow. Meanwhile, please enjoy the surrealistic nonsense of the following posts. Medium: Acrylic on board.
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The saponification of the orally administered yellow-spotted hyrax shall diminish domestic ungulates who
indulge in too many slurpies from the 7-11. Wild chive foam adorns the soft white belly of the magnificent stratified epidermis when showing sexual displays to the female species of osmotic terrestrial kittens. Permeable symbiotic harmony is tolerated only when cheez whiz and saltines are served upon lilies with exceptional hearing. Light travels in both waves and photons although German cats get in the way of horizontal migrations during the …
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I’m taking a few days off for summer vacation and am currently enjoying my bout of laziness. I figured I needed to post something in the meantime, so here is my tarot card version of The Star. I’ve very slowly been working on creating my own tarot deck and began with one of my favorite cards in the Major Arcana. I took a few liberties with the traditional symbolism, but the basic meaning is the same. Medium: ink, watercolor on antique paper. …
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I know I promised not to post any more Botany in Wonderland illustrations, but I needed something up here to balance out the lurid image shown below. Besides, chameleons are MUCH more interesting than Jessica Simpson. I wish there was a tabloid magazine devoted to exposing the scandals of the Reptilia class. Medium: acrylic on paper, digital collage.
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Thanks everyone for putting up with my break from painting gossip. This is the last image from my Botany in Wonderland series that I’ll be showing here, so please enjoy it while I get back to work painting Paris Hilton’s hypertrophic toes. Medium: ink, watercolor on scanned 140 year-old paper, and a wee bit of Photoshop.
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If you gaze into the beetle long enough, you might be able to see them. Medium: acrylic on board. I’ll be back from vacation early next week and will return to posting paintings based on the nonsense of celebrity gossip. Coming soon: Paris Hilton, Janice Dickinson and the Demented Food Chipmunk!
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The Five-Booted Grasshopper is one of several curious creatures from my Botany in Wonderland series. Scientists are at a loss to explain why this majestic creature wears only five boots when it has six legs and are puzzled further why it chooses to wear shiny vinyl stilettos when it could easily choose a shoe that provides more comfort and stability. This is an older piece and has been posted to another blog buried in the depths of Gallery of the Absurd. Medium: ink and …
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