100%REALART Mick Reasor Small Art
Cattle Dog pencils the occasional verse. His favored forms are the double dactyl and the clerihew. The clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
Popgun,
Inclined to run.
O'er winter drifts and summer blooms.
He hates those sissy costumes.
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You don't have to be mean, but it doesn't hurt.
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Begging skills finally pay off.
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Pugilistic pooch tires of explaining the difference between a boxer dog and a boxing dog.
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Not since Dogupations X: Dog Pound I has a painting captured the drama and romance of an Australian Cattle Dog pounding on something. In this case the target of the pounding is left to the imagination. The conventional answer is a nail, but maybe this time it's a nasty little striped beetle with only two sets of legs.
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There used to be a raccoon in this painting. I painted it out at the last minute--too late to change the title.
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Don't be deceived by the festive stripey tail, the cute mask or the especially dexterous front paws. This little monster would just as soon rip your face off as look at it--and then spread your garbage all over the yard. Raccoons are omnivorous and nocturnal. That means they'll eat anything and they'll do it under the cover of darkness. Twenty seven percent of the raccoon's diet is made up of vertebrates. You're a vertebrate, right?
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Cattle Dog cruises for some female companionship in his vintage Jeep. (Jeep sold separately)
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Episode Title: "The Trouble With Toupées"
Production Number: 42
Original Air Date: 12-29-67
Stardates: 4523.3, 4524.2
Synopsis: While responding to an emergency call from Deep Space Station K-7 to guard a shipment of quadrotriticale, the Enterprise crew acquires some small alien animals from trader Cyrano Jones. The living hairballs multiply faster than Kirk's chins and soon the Enterprise and K-7 are infested with the beasts.
A Klingon battle cruiser requests shore leave for its crew at the station. Under the terms of the Organian peace treaty, Kirk allows Captain Koloth and his crew to visit the station in limited numbers for tanning sessions and eyebrow maintenance. Klingons and Toupées share a mutual dislike for each other due to olfactory incompatability.
Arne Darvin, a surgically altered Klingon admits to having poisoned the grain and the Klingons are ordered from Federation space. Cyrano Jones is given the 17.9 year task of removing the hyper-fertile Toupées from the space station. Jones later founds the Intergalactic Hair Club for Men.
Lt. Commander Scott transports all the hair pieces from the Enterprise into the engine room of the Klingon battle cruiser before it goes into warp.
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Wiener Dog reminds you that 17% of all food-related asphyxiations are caused by hot dogs. A wedged hot dog is almost impossible to dislodge from a child's windpipe. To serve hot dogs safely, one should slice the wiener into bite-size pieces. or slice hot dogs down the middle length-wise to prevent the contents from ejecting from the hot dog skin. Wiener Dog is kind of a wiener.
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Blah, blah blah, overweight feline/Star Wars based punchline.
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Anne of Great Britain, Queen regnant of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born 6 February 1665 at St. James's Palace, London, the second daughter of James, Duke of York (afterwards James II), and his first wife, Lady Anne Hyde. Her paternal uncle was King Charles II and her older sister was the future Queen Mary II. Anne and Mary were the only children of the Duke and Duchess of York to survive into adulthood.
Anne died of suppressed gout, ending in erysipelason 1 August 1714. Her body was so swollen and large that it had to be buried in Westminster Abbey in a vast almost-square coffin
The erythematous skin lesion enlarges rapidly and has a sharply demarcated raised edge. It appears as a red, swollen, warm, hardened and painful rash, similar in consistency to an orange peel. More severe infections can result in vesicles, bullae, and petechiae, with possible skin necrosis. Lymph nodes may be swollen, and lymphedema may occur.
Fun Facts: the American state Anneland was named for her.
The Queen was originally shown holding the leg from a Queen Anne table in this portrait, but she objected thinking it looked too much like a leg of mutton. Radiographs reveal the table leg painted over with the sprig of queen anne's lace.
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Watercolor, gouache, graphite, grime and ink on matboard
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I bought my antique cast-iron drafting table at a police auction in Duluth, Minnesota. I don't know it's criminal past but it has always been a little spooky. As I struggled to load the table into my Plymouth Voyager it smashed the tail light, which cost more than the table. That was the beginning of an uneasy relationship with a piece of furniture. Some have even blamed the ups and downs of my artistic career on the brooding presence of the table in my studio. When in the presence of the table I often lose focus and initiative and am overcome by the overwhelming urge to either snack or nap.
When painting I cover the top of the table with a scrap of matboard. The matboard catches stray strokes of paint. I use the surface to "unload" a brush, shape its bristles or test a color mixture (yes, gray is a color). I also record phone numbers and solve simple math problems on the board.
Here's a shot of the well used scrap of board.
On a recent morning I entered my studio and immediately noticed the lingering smell of fried chicken. As I made my way to the drawing board an image in the random strokes came into focus. I eventually recognized the face from, various childhood fantasies (I saw Cleopatra at the Taj Mahal in San Antonia, Texas), as Elizabeth Taylor. Along with the smell of cooked poultry there was a definite whiff of the supernatural. My first question: dead or not dead? I quickly Googled Miss Taylor and was surprised to find her still among the living. Then the questions really started. How did the image get there? What did it mean? Why me? How much could I get for it?
In an effort to answer some of these questions I did a little paranormal investigating. My first step was to set up a motion activated night vision camera because nothing says supernatural like night vision. The very next night something activated the camera. The image was inconclusive but further examination offered some tempting clues. The circled portion of the image, when enlarged and optimized, looks a little like Richard Burton...
...who is dead.
Since the image appeared strange occurrences have continued. I have suffered nausea, headache, dry mouth, strange tastes and driving, eating or engaging in other activities while asleep with out memory of the event. I've decided either the table or the image has to go. Since the table is really heavy, and on on the second floor, I've decided to release the ghost painting.
Please be sure you REALLY want to own a possibly haunted portrait of Elizabeth Taylor before you bid.
Sure, Thuguana has issues. Abandoned by his mother at birth and nearly eaten by his father, is it any wonder he exhibits maladaptive behaviors?
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Research into the shady annals of advertising reveals the original Smokey Bear was an edgy, leather clad tobacco product user with an attitude. Early market research indicated a less than successful campaign. The ursine spokesman traded in his leather jacket and ubiquitous pack of smokes for a ranger hat and shovel and a Twentieth Century advertising icon was born.
Cue Jingle: "Smokey the Bear!
Smokey the Bear!
Growlin' and a Prowlin' and a sniffin' the air."
This item comes from a smoke-free studio. Smoking is very bad for you.
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Biologists believe the puffercat, also known as the blowcat, developed their famous “inflatability” because their laziness makes them vulnerable to predators. In lieu of escape, puffercats use their highly elastic stomachs and the ability to quickly ingest huge amounts of food to turn themselves into a virtually inedible ball several times their normal size.
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It's not easy to make it as a ping pong hustling pooch. Even if you've got the skills, the nerve and a custom made paddle you might end up on easy street or in the pound. Have a care confident young canine. Have a care.
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Twelfth in the groundbreaking series of dogupation paintings. Dogs doing the kind of jobs cats just won't do. In his tunic and bearskin the stoic and loyal Queen's Guard Dog protects the dim and flighty Royal Family. Nothing distracts the Grenadier from his duties (save the occasional squirrel).
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An unsettling glimpse into the workings of my brain.
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