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Color Walt Whitman with a Brown Thrush
From Birds in Beards 2: Dead Poets Edition: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d BY WALT WHITMAN 1 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you… Read more »
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Anaconda in an Airship with Aardvark Angels and an Acrobat; an Albatross Swims Below beside a fallen Acorn
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The End of Plumbing
My dear sweet daughter offered to clean the cat’s litter box last Saturday morning. What a sweetheart! I was sitting and eating my breakfast. “Can I clean off the bottom really well? You don’t seem to ever really clean it that well,” she called from the bathroom. “Sure. Of course.” I was drinking my coffee…. Read more »
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This Just Landed – Birds in Beards 2: Dead Poets Edition
Available in traditional paper, or a PDF to print at home on, say, watercolor paper or colored paper. It’s a little bit different from the first Birds in Beards, mainly in that the poetry is a lot better. I used all of the best old timey poets in the public domain, so they are high… Read more »
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Coloring Book of Portraits
I’m working on a new coloring book. It’s portraits of colorists. Do you like to color? Would you like to be in it? Email me your picture with your favorite animal at shoshanah@topbarbee.com. Working on the cover image now. Zanimal colored it for me.
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My Week In Pictures
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Things My Daughter Does When She Goes to the Bathroom
Things she does: Poops Pees Brushes her hair Reads Harry Potter Plays video games Video chats with Grandma Kathleen Scrapbooking (organizing photos, writing captions. Etc.) Things she does not do: Flush the toilet
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Beautiful Coloring & Preview
Marilyn colored a sneak preview I put out of Birds in Beards 2: Dead Poets Edition. Didn’t she do a fantastic job? Love the crazy hair color! Birds in Beards 2: Dead Poets Edition is probably going to be ready in the next couple of weeks. It’s cooking. It’s getting close! Soon. No comic today,… Read more »
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Arting and Stuff
1. Decide on a theme. (In this case: Birds in Beards 2: Dead Poets.) 2. Research. Poets? Poems? Birds? 3. Decide on a subject. (In this case: John Burroughs.) 4. Decide on an animal. In this case, a Cardinal (because it is a snow bird, and Burroughs had a poem about snow birds). 5. Sketch… Read more »
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The God and Goddess of Thunder
Last night, we had a wicked thunderstorm. It happened around one AM. I thought for sure the storm would cause Chyoko to finally have her lambs, but no go. Instead, the Zanimal had a crazy story to tell in the morning. Our two cats both love the Zanimal lots. They like sleeping with her. These… Read more »