…Kansas City, and Winston-Salem!
These are the last known locations, and Art by Christel *may* be sold out from these machines, so I recommend calling first to make sure they are in stock.

Pi Gallery
419 E. 18th St.
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816)210-6534

Urban Artware
207 West Sixth Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
(336)722-2345

BKB and Company
1744 Pacific Ave.
Tacoma, WA 98402
(253)272-6884

Mead Public Library
710 N. 8 St.
Sheboygan WI 53081-4563
(920) 459-3400

This is another sketch for a painting I am going to do. The idea came to me the other night when my six year old daughter was looking through her messy room for her teddy bear’s other slipper, and all of the drawers on her dresser were open. As I sketched it out the parody grew to include more and more elements from Dali’s paintings, such as The Persistence of Memory, and The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

My daughter thoroughly enjoyed the sketch. She offered me five pennies for the finished painting, and while I was unable to grant that request, I did promise her she could have the sketch when the painting was completed. She accepted that offer on the condition that I color it in first. She’s such a Capricorn.

This is a pencil sketch for a painting I am going to do. It’s very loosely inspired by Joan Miro’s El carnaval de arlequín. I didn’t intend any meaning behind it when sketching it out. I sort of just made it up as I went along. But now that I look at it, the message seems pretty evident: kids drive me crazy. Oh, and I’m the little mechanical wind-up toy.

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I now have a profile up on ArtWanted, and a lens on Squidoo.

I managed to get a lot accomplished today on two of my comissions, plus I’ve finished three more paintings for Art*O*Mat. I’m feeling pretty optimistic right now.