The Rule Breakers And Celsa Knew What Really Happened

 June 12, 2022

   Rounding up all the stacks of scratchboards I have accrued over the past year-and-a-half on my quest to illustrate the heart and soul of frontier women. Here's just a few I had to rework today.

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"The Rule Breaker"

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"The Big Hat"

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"Bell Jar Beauty"

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"Defiant Meztiso Girl"

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Celsa Knew What Really Happened"

(On July 14, 1881)

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Indentured"

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"Hopi Hottie"

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Mary Harony Before She Was Debauched"

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"Victorian Disgust"

(she is disgusted by all of this

scratchboard blasphemy)

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Victorian Rapture"

(If you believe you have no problems,

you have no problems)

    All from the forthcoming book, "Real Women of The Wild West."

"I don't paint for a living. I live to paint."

—Willem de Kooning