"Shady Character"

by: Mary C. Aikens, Artist

Dear Readers,

     Have anyone of you been left to wonder about this cold and wacky Winter since that groundhog did not see his shadow?  Well, I have, and I am left wondering what gives in this cold weather... One thing that I can say that I took advantage of the opportunity to refer that old Muskrat as a "Shady Character" since he left us wondering whether or not that he saw his shadow.

Title: "Shady Character"

Size: 7" W X 5" H 

Media: Water-Soluble Oil On Canvas Panel

Price: $35.00 (USD)

S/H: $15.00   

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"Bootiful Leg Winter Leg Wear"

"Bootiful Winter Leg Wear"

For the most part of my life, I have had quite a real fascination with boots of many kinds - especially knee-high boots.  I enjoy wearing boots because it they give me that certain feeling of warmth and comfort on a cold Winter day.  In this painting, I put in five different styles of boots with people and their preferences such as the first one on the left has the "Granny-Style"; the second one has the dressy and traditional knee-high-style; the one in the middle has the faux fur in a Viking style; the next to the right has the Khardashian style with the extremely high heels; and the last one on the right is, yes, the cowboy boot in patriotic colors.   This painting was done all in left hand which is a part of the "Non-Dominant" Challenge" by using the other hand that an artist will not usually paint with while painting and other activities.

Title: "Bootiful Winter Leg Wear"

Size: 6" W X 6" H 

Media: Watercolor

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Windshield Patterns

"Windshield Patterns"

There was something very special about watching the windshied wipers continuously make a pattern on the windshield in a back-and-forth motion during a rainy day.  This time was even more of a certain type of coincidence as well special time because it was at least a month after John F. Kennedy's assassination, and I sence a certain type of heaviness that was still lingering around America then.  Oddly enough, I was at the age of four at that particular time and could not totally process all of the political events that were really swirling around our country at that time. For a very long time, I have referred to rain as God's tears - especially when it was at least a month since that presidential assassination.  Yes, that was a very tragic time in America, however; we as Americans grieved for a while and then we began to carry on with our lives...  

Now, it was a little over a month after that tragic event, but many people, like my family and I tended to carry on - especially as we as a family were traveling from Tuscaloosa to both Prattville and then on to Montgomery to spend the Christmas holidays with our relatives.  My father was the one who drove the then-new station wagon, my mother was sitting by the window with a big overcoat over both her legs and lap, I was sitting between both parents, all of my three siblings were sitting in the back seat, and last but not least, our pieces of luggage were in the back deck.

With all of those events that were swirling across America, people as well my family and me were getting into the holiday traveling season, I as a child found myself so mesmerised by the repetitive patterns of the windshild wipers onto the windshield during a rainy winter day.

Title: "Windshield Patterns"

Size: 8" W X 6" H

Media: Watercolor on drawing paper.

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