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This is a crazy collaboration between Susan, Jerry and Myself. It is done on heavy brown grocery paper. The paper itself was from the bottom of a box, used as protective material for whatever was in that box. I've no clue what was in the box. The paper is cut to 6 x 6 inches. We passed it around on the 13th of July this year as we sat at Susan's table with her markers making inchies. I used to make headstones for a living. I was an illustrator and engraver. This is drawn on tracing paper with #2 pencil. The image itself is reversed when it drawn so it can be transfered to rubber stencil which is then cut to reveal the drawing a it will appear on the engraved stone. St. Francis is on a Georgia Gray granite headstone in a cemetary somewhere in Kansas. This is the original drawing. I'm uncertain if I engraved this particular drawing or not. I enjoyed being an engraver. Illustrating comes natural to me. I had to learn the skill of engraving. I did hundreds of drawings on tracing paper that ended up on someone's headstone...I have very few of the actual drawings in my possession though as they belong to the monument companies I worked for at the time they were drawn. I have even more finished stones in grave yards in five states. Loved that work! Engraving took physical strength and knowledge. Illustrating is not physical work at all! Knowledge doesn't even really come in when know what it is the customer wants. Find a picture for reference and go for it! You all wouldn't believe the number of different tractors, combines, windmills, and other farm equipment I've drawn in this life! It was more like play. Chipboard base, pink paper dusted with silver glitter and then again with red/orange glitter, green cord and novelty yarn, little glass beads. Fish is wall paper painted orange attached to chip board with a googly eye. Danglies are that same green cord with green pony beads tied to the ends. Backside is pink paper with 2 foam fish stickers and my info written in marker.

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