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Miss Vermont

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A fall-ish picture featuring a beaver girl enjoying apple cider on a crisp autumn evening. From sketch~  To finished painting~ To video~

Oh, Dear...

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 Sam Tyler watches as Gene Hunt kicks in a nonce. From the BBC series, Life On Mars. https://youtu.be/PHP3Jih_rfA Nonce, 1975. Unknown, derived from British criminal slang. Several origins have been proposed; possibly derived from dialectal nonce , nonse ( “ stupid, worthless individual ” ) (but this cannot be shown to predate nonce "child-molester" and is likely a toned-down usage of the same insult), or Nance , nance ( “ effeminate man, homosexual ” ) , from nancy or nancyboy . The rhyme with ponce has also been noted. As prison slang also said to be an acronym for "Not On Normal Communal Exercise" (Stevens 2012), but this is likely a backronym .  

Fairy Forest

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 A fairy fox and her enchanted forest friends! From sketch~ To finished painting~ To video~

Voila

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   John Milton, The Ghost Of A Flea. 1819-20. Tempera with gold. That's Satan on the way down in the left background.

Miss Wyoming

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 Park ranger Miss Wyoming reminds you not to get too close to the bison-and she's serious about that!  From sketch~ To finished painting! To video~

No Exit

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 That's right,...we're going to be the best of friends.  After all, we got all the time in the world. https://www.instagram.com/sdavis.howdy/

Miss Alabama

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 Just a possum girl fishing on a summer day~from sketch To finished painting~ To video~

Death Of Commodus

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 Cropped for refined sensibilities. https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2024/07/death-of-commodus.html The whole megillah. Take this, Sir, may it serve you well.