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I'm not joking - I just heard a guy on a YouTube video very carefully explaining that "pasteurized" eggs and "pasture raised" eggs were not the same thing, and for just a minute, I questioned everything about my reality. 

I decided not to dwell on that though, and share a little art instead.

I hope you enjoy it, because for most of it, I was cracking myself up. And not in a pasteurized vs. pasture raised way, either.

First up, one of my long-favorite art subjects, the humble pear from this very arty and modern stamp set.

I'm not very good at painting, but I enjoy it immensely, and so I take a lot of painting classes. In many of these, I have painted pears. The reason for this is the pear is a simple shape that is easy to replicate for beginning painters, but also can have a lot of nuanced light, shadow and color for more advanced painters. Perfect for a class setting.

So I thought I'd get a little arty with this beautiful image. 

I stamped it on a piece of masking paper and cut out the center of the pear. Then I put acrylic paint dots all over the opening and scraped it with a credit card - so easy! I re-masked the pear and the stem and stamped the super graphic background from the set over it - when stamping a solid image like this over a mask, a tool like this really helps you not get a halo.

Now here's where I went super rogue. I LOVE the Forest Friends set where you could have animal heads poking out of a tree - adorable! But when I got the addition set, where it had the bodies  - OH YOU KNOW WHAT I DID. Did I cackle the whole time? PERHAPS. The sentiment is from this set. The stencils are the spots, the sunburst and the leaves. I love the opportunity to create surreal art. 

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Hope your week is shaping up well.

Loveyameanitbye.

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