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Do check out my new book The Second Chance and it'd mean a lot to me and I'll also appreciate it if you do xx

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Lately I have also started a new ritual in my books; I use the back of each image- whatever bleeds through is also used as an independent image.  This unpredictable product requires a courageous open mind and takes images in directions they otherwise wouldn’t go, they require more creativity and provide a fuller body of work as these images relate to, but are not restricted by, the original intentions or images.  I am fascinated by the way that oil pastels can be manipulated with mineral spirits and other solvents. It is an adventure to risk ruining your work just to see what happens when a solvent is applied to it;  to see if you can make it just a bit different or better.   I make several photographs of the book in progress and at completion.  When a book is completed the work continues.  Long after I decide an image is complete in it’s original form I will work with photographs and every digital tool available to further increase the possibilities of each image.  This is the most exciting time in history to make art.  Artists can make work and get feedback in real time and use some exciting new technologies to create and reach patrons the world-over on a personal level.  I am so happy to share myself with you.  I try to answer any comments or questions as quickly as possible and will always consider commissions.

Tactile, layered, vibrant, tribal, riotously colored.  In my youth all I wanted to do was invent a new color.  I work in my studio at home, usually on many projects at once.  I enjoy painting on canvas and painting objects.  While waiting for wet paint, oil pastel or solvent layers to dry I often switch gears and move on to my other mediums.Lately I have been especially interested in the skulls, owls and bird images. My two dimensional work is conducted as an entire book.  I work through the book with one color at time adding to several drawings. For instance, I may choose I prismacolor marker in a peachy tone and start on the first page of the book, flipping through each page and adding peach where I feel it is needed.  I use colored pencils, charcoal, markers, erasers and finally solvents to bring each image to fruition.  None of the individual drawings are completed until the entire book is fully realized.  Currently I am working on a book with many images of birds.

You served in the Navy?! 0.0 thank you for saving our country! Btw I just finished reading your profile so that's why I asked.

Thanks for the foollow :)

Also I hope it's not considered poor taste to hijack a request like yours with a selfish expressive outburt, seriously it's like squeezing into your bro's '86 Fiero and farting tacoHell4thmeal style.  SORRY  Good luck with your story, sincerely I hope this was a silly distraction that will prove therapeutic and somehow useful.

Generic Ken Pornstar screaming and sniffling- then using his 
          'telephone voice" he screams, "The Adult Film Industry Doesn't appreciate it, when my boyfriend, beast-fiend decides to beat me black and blue, you ogre! or punches me so hard that my lip splits or I have a black eye.  More screaming, less sniffling now, That's not the kind of porn they shoot. If they can't airbrush this, I'm finished! Just finished! Not Rock Hudson finished, but James Mother Fucking Dean Finished! This is it. Out!!! Get the fuck out of my apartment right now!"       ..5 min later..."do you need help with that? Now don't strain yourself, Bearbear I could hire a mover in a minute, a snap minute."  The larger man sighs, then leaves saying nothing.    As the large polished door is swinging shut on it's expensive "Close Quietly" hinge, "Generic Ken Porn star" tries not to whisper for his tormentor to wait. He tries not to whale or shrilly beg him back.  He rushes to the door as it does close with barely any sound. Leaning against it, back to board, he asks, no one in particular, "I allow and enjoy having strangers, I am paid to have strangers fuck me. My partners have always fucked me over in one aspect or another. What's so bad about calling in sick, or a few bruises.  I love him. SOB, SNIFF, SOB- "I need some bourbon and a bath"
          
          So ok - It's super late here and I just got on a role.  I thought it. And I am not now or probably ever going to write a gay abuse porn-star movie story. I'm not homophobic, I've just now used up all the material I would write in such/suck a piece/piss of stuffs.    Thanks for letting me play!  I hope I win.  You have my express permission to use the above blurb, the literary burp above in any manner you see fit.  [ I understand and apologize for embracing some gay stereotypes for the sake of humor. It was not my intention to offend anyone, this time. ]

Earlier tonight, I tried, like to help another, to help a writer on wp [is that how you say it?] Or is it, like, a "writer on the pad"? Because that just sounds awful- like as in pad/period awful.  So are we just writers? Well we are never just *anything* but are we "watty's or "paddys" or "wattpadders" or "padders".  I like the notion of "padders" because if you "pad" your resume, you're telling a bit of a lie.  Writing is lying with honesty or honestly lying- either way we're telling stories.  Great Stories!
          
          So earlier tonight I tried to help someone, an author, to title a book about a gay rising [ha ha], a gay rising porn-star who is unfortunately, [bless his heart] in an abusive relationship.  More: the author really wanted the title to come in around four words.  So after reading all the other entries and typing a metric*F* ton of really good ones, Mae-Mobley, my Boston flops over [asleep] onto the keyboard and I end up on an email to vendor. YAY. SO  I lost the where/who of the titling of the gay.porn.star.battered onions without rings story.
          
          SOOOooo If you come to my site to congratulate me for winning or to ask me wtf or anything at all, I want to present you with what Mae-Mobley the Boston erased from your title match:
          ooooh there were so many and I'm so new & WP stupid that I can't go back there, so you'll have to beleeb me. 
           
          The Libido-Not-Lightly Affair
          cont.
          

@northbynorth - I'm so excited to get caught up with actual work of posting.  I do the bulk & beast of my work offline, as not to accidentally tap that send/publish button.  That would be like dropping trou at the shore, right? You'd want everything to be your personal perfect before the towel hit the sand. Good luck & happy writing.