Cigar-tin stories (from bottom to top) #6, #7, #8 ... the grim production continues ... #6 contains a story called Victory Girl, #7 contains Free Rein, and #8 is In the Kingdom of Chicken ... all previously published stories, all with additional illustrations on the booklet cover ... now I know what a factory feels like, where everything comes down to numbers ballooning, and mashing the requisite parts together ... meanwhile, there's rain falling on snow here today, and the sky is like poker smoke in the morning.
People are always telling me that my work is too dark. So I've put up this sunnier story, but even it has a shadow, as its original publisher – a fine Atlantic Canadian literary magazine called the Gaspereau Review – is no longer in business. ---------------- It was a simple enough thing and that thing was simply this: Edmund Kelley was a gentleman. Of course his mom called him her 'little gentleman', as in 'Oh Edmund, you are my perfect little gentleman,' which did seem to hold to a certain logic that these type of things often follow, considering her affection for him and the fact that he was, after all, only ten years old. Still, Edmund himself was not particularly fond of the diminutive aspect of that title. Gentleman was enough; gentleman summed up the whole thing rather nicely, thank you. He was definitely a more refined version of your average child. He lived in a state of perpetual Sunday m
Your figures are really mysterious and interesting. And painting them on empty cigar boxes is a nice way to use them. Too bad you can't give up smoking if you want to carry on painting them!
ReplyDeleteI just really can't get enough of your art. It is so amazing!
ReplyDeletecigar boxes; very nice. I saw a handpainted cigar box at the local gallery that was going for $1200.00. Who knew there was a market!
ReplyDeleteReally? And here I am selling them for $20 apiece.
ReplyDeletenot really only 20 bucks?
ReplyDeleteany leftovers?