From The Bar ~ The Tongan Wars

| January 8, 2009

Another segment of a project The Rise and Fall of a Saloon In The Latter Part off The Twentieth Century. These excerpts are not chronological. In fact very little logic prevails…  From CIA World Fact Book:                                                                         Tonga The archipelago of “The Friendly Islands” was united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845. It became a [...]

Paper Dolls by Vann ~ Betty Boop

| January 2, 2009

I knew an exotic beauty and was thinking of doing a painting of her. She demurred and asked me instead to make one of Betty Boop. So I did, just to see if I could make it work.  She’s about 12″ tall Never did get to try for the portrait of the girl herself because [...]

The Mating Dance ~ Bits and Pieces ~ Part One…

| January 1, 2009

  The Mating Dance is a series of obvservations of human natrure in pursuit of  (more or less) romantiic endeavor   They are not in any particular order.  That would imply rationality . The Mating Dance The “Butterknife Girl” She who squeegees her body against you as she talks to you… She pays particular attention to [...]