Gale’s high school portrait and chalk sillhouette from Disney Land
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Gale’s hand drawn cartoons from high school
My mother kept the original and the full 11 x 14 has a link at the bottom of this post. Since I have a normal desktop scanner the art had to scanned in two pieces and then put back together in Photoshop. This is practice for the enormous engagement portraits of mom and dad.
I was struck how these cartoons really captured the essence of who I was and how I felt then and even now so I broke them apart into separate images for posting here.
Top left corner — let the sun shine in. My living area walls are painted what I call the color of sun light so nothing has changed with my feelings about this one.
Next came a commentary on controlling men. Something I didn’t agree with then and I don’t agree with now.
Top right was how I felt about the people who controlled me and how I was always fed the line that it can’t be helped. You know — if you don’t want to hurt people, then don’t do it. Don’t tell them it can’t be helped.
But underneath everything I had a happy heart so I loved this Snoopy cartoon.
Sometimes “oh boy” is all you can say about life…
My belief that somethings not even magic can fix no matter how much you wish it could. Still feel that way.
I absolutely loved the little caveman in BC cartoons. He wasn’t the brightest thing, but he was cute. I added the leash and caption to the second one and there are still a lot of people I’d like to ask that question of including the person in the mirror.
And I didn’t feel I was born with very good luck… I think now it’s not so much about luck, but about attitude however.
Nothing has changed here. I still hate being nagged and I absolutely hate nagging. If you have to badger someone what’s the point? But I was caught between two generations of naggers — my mom’s skills seemed to pass directly to Josh undiminished. Note I penciled in “shame” on the apron.
And last but not least. I felt lonely in my family, I felt lonely at school, I felt lonely all the time and this little guy summed it up.
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Hugh and Verda Engagement Portraits
Thank heavens for Photoshop Photo Merge. I had to scan these large portraits in two sections and then get them back together. I tried it manually and there was such a bad difference in scanning exposure it wasn’t working. Photo merge did a beautiful job. All I did was clean up flaws in scratches and brighten each image up a little. Full size originals are available for download at the bottom of this post.
Speaking of beautiful — they were a gorgeous couple. Dad with his dark good looks and mom with her Nordic beauty.
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