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ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY

My daughter - as a wee one. Seen here honing her own artist skills with one of her best friends...


Illustration Friday

THE FOUR SEASONS

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RABBIT MOON

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INFECTED BY ART

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The piece is a study of a crone -
She is rendered in graphite - the crow silhouette is a simple vector.

PROVIDENCE

Meanwhile… back at the ancestral ranch:

I was given a gift of ANCESTRY.COM some time ago. I have been tracing back everyone and their mothers – literally. I have come to find out that my roots go back to THE SALEM VILLAGE WITCH TRIALS.

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THE HANGING TREE

Only, none of my relations were accused of the craft. My relations were Quakers. They were Quakers in the middle of a Puritan community. It seems the Puritans weren’t so tolerant after fleeing England in order to escape… you know… religious intolerance.

ASK A WITNESS

Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick entertained two Quaker preachers in their home. They also held some writings of those preachers. The Puritans considered this heresy. The Southwicks were fined, left in abject poverty and were summarily excommunicated from the settlement. They were never to return as it was punishable by death. Their two children were then sold into slavery (Daniel and Provided) to pay off the court costs/fines. Provided Southwick is listed as the only white woman ever to be sold into slavery. [http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/history-slavery - Slavery Comes to America]

As fate would have it – she never did become a slave. No one wanted any part of it.

“…none willing to take them thither. One master of a ship to whom he applied, in order to evade a compliance, pretended they would spoil the ship's company. Butler replied, no, you do not fear that, for they are poor harmless creatures that will not hurt anybody. The master rejoined, will you then offer to make slaves of such harmless creatures? and declined the invidious office of transporting them, as well as the rest. Disappointed in his designs and at a loss how to dispose of them, the winter approaching, he sent them home to shift for themselves till he could find a convenient opportunity to send them away.”

Provided married a man named Samuel Gaskill.

Provided spent her free time fighting heresy charges, protesting the intolerance of the status quo and relaxing in the town’s stockade on more than one occasion.

JUST HANGING OUT

During the witch trials, a girl that Samuel’s parents had as a border (Abigail Somes) was charged and tried as a witch. Samuel Sr. was overlooked… but the Gaskill name stayed in the middle of the trials.

"You are in theire Majest's names hereby required to apprehen and forthwith bring before us Abigaile Soames Single Woman, now Liveing at the house of Sam'l Gaskill in Salem; who stand accused of Sundry acts of #[Sundry] Witchcraft, (or high suspition there of) donne or Committed by her Lately. on the Body of Mary Warren & faile not

Dated Salem, May the 13'th 1692 P us
*John Hathorne Assis't
*Jonathan. Corwin Assis't

(Reverse) Abigaile Soames
I heave Aprehended the person of Abigall Soams Acordinge to warrante exprest on the other side and heave broughte hir to the how of mr Thomas Beadles pr me *Peter Osgood Constable in Selem

May the 13; 1692” (Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 50)

More Relations with Bunnies

The documents of the trials shows that Provided Gaskill signed petitions for the defense of John and Elizabeth Proctor.

“To Constable peter Osgood
“We whose names are under witten havinge several yeares knowne John Procter and his wife do testefy that we never heard or understood that they were ever suspected to be guilty of the crime now charged apon them and several of us being their neare neighbours do testefy that to our aprehension they lived christian life in their famely and were ever ready to helpe such as stood in need of their helpe

Nathaniel Felton sen: and mary his wife
Samuel Marsh and Prescilla his wife
James Houlton and Ruth his wife
John Felton
Nathaniel Felton jun
Samuell Frayll and an his wife
Zachriah Marsh and mary his wife
Samuel Endecott and hanah his wife
Samuell Stone
George Locker
Samuel Gaskil & Provided his wife
George Smith
Ed Edward: Gaskile”
( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 28 )

So there it is. I am proud to present my 7ggm –
PROVIDED GASKILL - a rebel - standing for human dignity and what she believed.

Thank-you, Great Grandmother Provided.
We women of the bloodline still fight the good fight.

TIMES – THEY ARE A CHANGIN’

I graduated. GRAD. U. ATED. Apparently I am an artist with real “cred” now. Ta Da. ‘Nuff said.

AT LEAST ACCORDING TO "WHAT SVU CHARACTER ARE YOU"
I AM.

Speaking of which, are these programs really accurate?:

SHE'S LIKE THE WIND....

Of course, I cannot collect my diploma until I pay my CASH DEBT to University. So I graduated, but am technically $1500 from a diploma (not to mention the $100,000 school loans that will be rolling in). YAY FOR MAJORING IN ART!





Did I mention I graduated with a 4.0/4.0





GIMME A GATLIN GUN
GATLINBURG’S “ART FOR GOD”

Behind Wood Whittler’s.

I was invited and am now an active member in an artist’s co-op in Gatlinburg, Tennessee! As odd as that sounds (seeing how I stay in This Here Toledo), I am honored and humbled. I have sent a LOT of my studies of the different characters I have come to know through significant stories. Mostly they are characters who are undergoing intense transitions (Mary The Madeline, Mary The Mom, Simeon The Guy, etc.) I was also asked to include… BUNNIES. Hey – we are ALL God’s creatures, you  know.

DID I MENTION "BEHIND WOOD WHITTLERS"?

I spent weeks gathering prints and product and shipping it down to Tennessee. And… I am still broke. But happy – as they say.

I AM ON A WALL.

I AM ON A RACK.

REMEMBER - ALWAYS USE A FANCY FRAME!

I FOLDED THEM MYSELF - I AM HUMBLE

BUY THIS STUFF

LOOK AT THAT FRAME!

THESE HERE TOLEDO

I figured the best way to return to the blogosphere is to give you a current tour of These Here Toledo - #8 on the list of the 12 most MISERABLE places to live. Don't believe me?
CHECK IT OUT:
http://realestate.msn.com/10-most-miserable-us-cities-of-2012#9


Not that the place has changed, mind you – it’s just... well...

WELCOME TO THE CITY'S BACK ALLEY CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER!

I WONDER IF SUSIE DROPPED THE KIDS OFF AT
THE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER?

SUSIE'S FAKE FRENCH MANICURE COMING UNGLUED
UNDER THE DOOR OF A RESTROOM.

SUSIE'S HOUSE

LICENSE PLATE ADVICE: YOLO!

A RATHER PROGRESSIVE CHURCH IF YOU ASK ME...

SOMEONE STOLE THE BENCH PART OF THE BENCH.
THIS IS WHY THESE HERE TOLEDO CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

THE PROJECTS OF STUDIO566
And now - to catch up all of the minions of Studio566:

I TOOK A WILD SQUIRREL TO THE VET
TO BE EUTHANIZED. HE WAS IN VERY BAD SHAPE.
I CRIED AND THE VET THOUGHT I WAS NUTS.

MY TRIBUTE TO SAID SQUIRREL.

CRONE STUDY
SHE IS GRAPHITE PENCIL - THE REST IS COMPUTER GRAPHICS

MURRAY TRIBUTE
ANOTHER CREATURE NOW AT PLAY IN THE COSMOS

WHEN PEOPLE DREAM ABOUT ME, THEY GIVE ME DOGS AND FANCY FOOTSTOOLS.
(AND INSPIRATION FOR A DRAWING)

OWL LADY
(MY BEAUTEOUS NIECE, BARBARA)

AND NOW... RAGING BUNS UPDATE

I am delighted to report that RAGING BUNS was popular this last holiday season. I thank all of you who purchased my artwork!

THE TOUGH BUNS OF WATERSHIP DOWN

EL-AHRAIRAH

LANCE AT FOUR AM

LANCE AT FOUR AM SPYING ON ME

AWARENESS

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

PATIENCE

IN CONSIDERATION OF THE SPIRIT

IT WAS WINDY

THE END

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