Boxing Wallaby

“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
– Lady Bird Johnson

Boxing Wallaby

2.5″ x 3.5″ Watercolor & Sharpie

This is the end of the wallaby series. I really had fun doing them. Aren’t you glad I ran out of time last weekend? he he There could have been more.

About Lady Bird Johnson

Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson, the wife of President Lyndon Johnson, is known for her concern for the environment. She was born in Texas in 1912. Johnson asked her to marry him seven weeks after they met. She supported his career by keeping his congressional office running after his heart attack, stumping for Democratic candidates, and visiting 33 countries as his emissary. She founded the Wildflower Research Center and worked to pass the Highway Beautification Act. She lived in Texas until her death in 2007.

A note from me: The Highway Beautification Act comes into play in the sign business often. The law enables the government to limit the amount of billboards and other signage that can be placed on certain highways. Even though I own a sign shop, I still think this is a good thing.

Acrylic Wallaby

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Jessamyn West

Acrylic Wallaby

2.5″ x 3.5″ Atelier Interactive Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

Wow, how weird…. Where’s the purple? he he

Mary Jessamyn West (July 18, 1902 – February 23, 1984) was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945).

West went to Whittier College in the 1920s. There she helped found the Palmer Society, in 1921.

Much of her work concerns Indiana Quakers. Although she was born in Vernon, Indiana she left the state at the age of six when her family moved to California. Asked about this in an interview, she said, “I write about [Indiana] because knowing little about it, I can create it.” Comparing herself to other authors that created fictional universes, she remarked:

“Roth wrote The Breast. Would you ask him how he could do this since he had never been a breast? Adams wrote Watership Down. Would you ask him how he could do this since he admitted his rabbit knowledge came from a book about rabbits? … And those hobbits!… I am a bigger risk-taker than these others. The Hoosiers can contradict me. No rabbit, hobbit, or breast has been known to speak up in reply to their exploiters.”

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SoHo Wallaby

It isn’t sufficient to seek wholeness through men, it never was and never will be for any woman, married or single.

Patricia O’Brien

SoHo Wallaby

3.5″ x 4.5″ SoHo Acrylics on Watercolor paper

I was trying to be a little looser with this wallaby. But of course, you can’t be too loose on such a small piece of paper. I did have a lot of fun with him tho.

Patricia O'Brien is an award-winning journalist, novelist and author of at least 7 books.

For ten years she worked as political correspondent and columnist in the Washington Bureau of the Knight-Ridder Newspapers. She covered the Reagan White House, Congress and the 1984 national political campaigns of Gary Hart and Geraldine Ferraro.

She went on to become press secretary for Michael Dukakis’ Presidential nomination campaign in 1987-88 and then was awarded a Freedom Forum Fellowship at Columbia University.

O’Brien began her career as a journalist in 1966 at The South Bend Tribune. She went on to the Chicago Sun Times as a reporter, editorial writer, and columnist. In 1973 she became a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard.

She has been a commentator for CBS-TV’s Morning Show, CBS-Radio’s Spectrum series, and hosted a local Chicago television public affairs program. She has written for a number of magazines, from Harper’s Bazaar to Esquire, including reviews for the New York Times Sunday book section.

Watercolor Wallaby

The reasonable man encounters circumstances and adapts himself to them. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt circumstances to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
–George Bernard Shaw

Watercolor Wallaby

3″ x 4″ on Indian Village 300 gm Handmade Paper

This is going to be the week of the wallaby. I painted this little guy four different ways over the weekend. He was one of the reference photos by OldRockChick over at WetCanvas. I had intended to do him in every medium I have in the studio, but ran out of time. (ya think?) he he

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent’s office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets. more…