Being a poor artist, yet still loving my tobacco, it was one of the least expensive handmade Dominicans I could find. I bought a bundle quite a while ago from famous-smoke.com, my favorite online purveyor.
I was so into my painting that the cigar burned away between my lips, hardly noticed.
Then it started to taste REALLY good, all of a sudden. The flavor had become richer and much tastier.
Startled from my reverie, I looked down at it, only to find that I had smoked it down to the plastic and paper wrapper, which was half burned through. Yum.
Maybe I need to start rolling junk mail into sticks and smoking that?
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In other news, I took part in the annual Springfield "Walk Through the Arts" event, organized by the most excellent Kevin Rogers. Five of my paintings were on display there and I brought the whole family along. At one point, I noticed a little girl of about eight with a violin case smiling and obviously enjoying my black and white pulp art paintings.
I leaned down and said "Hi! Do you like my paintings?"
She nodded yes.
I told her "Great! I like to paint silly stuff, you know, funny but not too scary."
She nodded. Then her mother saw her looking at my art and said "Okay now... let's go look at some paintings that will give you NICE dreams."
Quickly, my little fan was whisked away by Mrs. Overprotective Psycho Mom.
Come on? Would this scare YOUR kids?
Who knows?
I must say, I love chatting with kids about art. SHE got it, even if her mom didn't.
Oh well. Can't win 'em all!
I'll bet the little violinist grows up and gets a tattoo.
-DG
2 comments:
Hooray! A post! Glad you're active with all your artwork. You're the only person I know who does that, so cool. Sawyer would not be scared at that painting. He'd roll his eyes because that's what I look like after a day trucking his whiney self around this city. That's exactly it. Actually, has Pat been sending you current pics of me? Uncanny resemblance.
That's hilarious! Sawyer is the BEST EVER.
And no, no pictures of you... sadly. Rachel says you look like a model.
And I said "See, I told you so! That's why I had such a HORRIBLE crush on her in high-school!"
OF course, I doubt you look as mean as that crusty old wench. And speaking of active... have you seen my two other art blogs? (look under my profile) I'm painting (and drawing) my fingers off!
Not rich yet, but some art is selling. Soon, I'll be famous. Like, maybe tomorrow.
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