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Bye Bye Birdies

9/7/2012

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I am a thrift store shopper. 
  Always have been. 
 I have been selling antiques and collectibles for years - so now when I am shopping - I simply look for paint and brushes and canvas in addition to all the other stuff I look for... 
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I found this BIG 4 foot square canvas with a bonus!  


It had a great texture already on it.



I did google Thomas Lee and it was as I suspected.

A lousy 1970's furniture store art painting.

So no qualms for me to paint it over.
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Pigeon eradication begins.

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I never plan ahead what I am going to do.  

I just start painting.

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I found a little tube of ORANGE acrylic paint at Goodwill yesterday and put it to use here.

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Added a little of this and a little of that...

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and a little of that and a little of this....until "Requiem for Two Pigeons" was completed.

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Bobbie Phillips Heil
4/5/2018 10:37:25 pm

Just know the painting you painted over was stolen from my aunt's house in Desert Hot Springs..I know this because it was my painting I had that painting since I was 18. We were told it was destroyed in a house fire.

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