Joey “Da Brick” Risso – He was a massage therapist until director Alan Smithee discovered him and made him a heavy in a dozen lousy gangster films from 1934 to 1940. Joey was drafted for WWII in 1940 and came back in 1945, retired from the film industry and opened a flower shop.
2 hours in Photoshop. Click for larger image.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.
8 hour painting, gouache on bristol paper. Click for detail.

Tulip Cress rode the leaping frog at break-neck speeds, charging through the wood with wild abandon…
6 hour painting, gouache on bristol paper. Click for detail.







