Lucy

this is my dear friend Lucy

her human is Terence

Terence gave me a conk to paint on

(conks grown on trees)

one day it occurred to me to paint his beloved Lucy on the conk

 

original inspiration, she often walks and sits on logs:

 even on cold snowy days she loves to be outside

winter being her favorite season

(she is part husky)

that is why there are snowflakes in the painting

it was fun to seek to portray a real being in a painting

as i usually make them up

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She

it is not by her ears or wings that we know

it is in her spirit that tells us

she is of another realm

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this piece has been quite hard to photograph accurately
the eye detail above is a little darker than the original 
the other two pieces are a bit lighter

layers 

and layers

of pencil and markets

were used to create her face

this is a fairly large piece 

with hair 10"x22"

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