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lunatica

lunatica's Journal
lunatica's Journal
December 30, 2019

My rendering of FLOTUS Michelle Obama

This is a photo of the artwork but it came out slightly blurry so please accept my apologies.

December 29, 2019

My cat, King Tut (drawing)

December 15, 2019

My #2 drawing of vegetables

December 8, 2019

My Atheist Xmas tree painting

Merry Winter and Happy Snow days!


December 6, 2019

My Painting of New Mexico stormy skies

The topography in New Mexico is such that in some places the rise of the land allows you to see a 100 miles or more so when storms travel through you can see the thunderclouds that are very far away. So you can see rain falling far away, bright sunshine on the tops of cumulonimbus clouds as well as the very dark undersides, the color of the sky, the lowering of the dark clouds overhead, and lightning strikes in the far distance.



Acrylic on canvas - 24” x 36”

November 29, 2019

My portrait of Clarence Darrow - Monkey trial lawyer

I love faces that tell a story of the life and character of the subject.



https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Clarence_Darrow

Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 - March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. His opposition to the death penalty and his work against racial inequality furthered the cause of human rights early in the twentieth century. He is best known for defending teen-aged "thrill killers" Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks (1924) and for defending John T. Scopes in the so-called "Monkey" Trial (1925) where a dramatic confrontation took place in court between Darrow and fundamentalist Christian William Jennings Bryan.

Darrow remains notable for his oratory utilizing the wit, compassion, and agnosticism that marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians of the twentieth century.




November 22, 2019

One of my color pencil drawings of vegetables

Food from Mexico


October 10, 2019

This is a picture I painted of President Obama before he turned gray

I want to make a very large one of 3 ft x 3 ft or larger some day.

It’s only two colors, black and white, which symbolizes, among other things, his mixed race parentage. I wanted to do something that represented a racially united country. Little did I know!

June 28, 2019

When an hour or two goes by and you forgot to breath

while sitting on the precipitous edge of your seat you know you’ve just seen a real debate!

Whew! I love them all of them!

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Gender: Female
Hometown: Santa Fe, NM
Home country: USA
Current location: Santa Fe, NM
Member since: Sun Oct 21, 2007, 01:35 PM
Number of posts: 53,410

About lunatica

Retired from UC Berkeley since 2018 where I worked in Administration and now living in Santa Fe. I am an artist and I paint and draw.
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