Neighborly Adoration

Meet my neighbor Jacob w/his true love. We had the most spiritual chat in the parking lot tonight. The 3 if us are huge thrifters...we usually see each other at our fav thrift in Tea, South Dakota. This is an 11"x14" watercolor painting. I used clear glitter, markers I bought of TEMU and watercolor paints.

Bookmarkers Were Once a Thing I Did

Once upon a time when I lived in Yankton, South Dakota....

I created a lot of bookmakers for children...

Never made a profit. 

They took forever to hand-draw and hand-paint each one. 

The darling little humans loved them... as I also laminated each one, and added a nice ribbon... each one was fine-tuned just for that child. 

Also, I discontinued these rather quickly.

 A lot of work and no one wanted to pay the labor of tackling each one individuality. 

Everyone wanted "discounts." 

Hard to work for yourself, wanting to spread cheer far and wide, when parents complain about the price of a talent you were blessed with. 

 

My Artistic Skills Goes Beyond Cartoons

 Long before I became a trademarked licensed artist, I studied graphic art at two colleges in the 1980s in South Dakota and Nebraska. I had amazing gifted art instructors both at Northern State University in Aberdeen South Dakota and Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska from 1985 to 1989. The top three are 16"x24" watercolor paintings I did at WSC. The last photo is a bronze sculpture I also created at WSC.