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Painting of shredded wheat balanced on a glass of milk, with a grapefruit half and spoon on a blue napkin.

Shredded Wheat

I've been stuck in a series for the last little while. This series is called Breakfast of Champions and gave me an opportunity to paint cereal in 12 different kinds of glasses usually associated with alcohol. It started with the book by Kurt Vonnegut; a phrase my mother used to quote.

Virginia and Sevro painting

Virginia and Sevro

Speaking of books, I enjoy incorporating them, especially ones I get from the library. Libraries are an amazing resource. This might start me on a stretch of stuffed animals.

Nehi painting

Nehi

Stuffed animals aren't the only toys I work with. It's fun to create scenarios for toys to live out. Beaker legos have shown up a lot in my recent work.

A Few of My Crushes painting

A Few of My Crushes

And sometimes I just like to play with a pun.

© I sure hope a copyright notice scares off the LLM bots.