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Forever a Golden Girl: The Art of Being Bea Arthur
The artist Mike Denison has set himself a challenge: to draw one picture a day for an entire year of his heroine Bea Arthur.
When we speak, the artist Mike Denison is 308 Bea Arthurs down, with 57 to go. A fan of The Golden Girls and Arthur in particular, Denison is drawing the actress, one sketch a day for an entire year. “Bea a Day,” as he calls it, is the kind of strange-sounding thing Rose might announce at the kitchen table, as part of her interminable St. Olaf stories, leading Dorothy to gnaw at her wrist, or scream, begging for mercy, “Rose!”
Denison e-mails me a collection of his favorite sketches. In a riff on E.T., “B.T.” sees Dorothy taking her mother, Sophia, on the famous bicycle ride across the front of the face of the moon Elliott and his alien buddy did, the sweetness of the image undercut by Dorothy’s familiar menacing threat to return her mother to her much-hated retirement home: “Shady Pines, Ma.” “Happy Little Beas” is a spin-off of TV artist Bob Ross’ delight in painting some “happy little trees.”
One of Denison’s favorites sees Arthur, who died aged 86 in 2009, transformed into a diva-ish “Bea-yoncé”; another with her in a bikini taking a selfie in the sea; he’s even drawn her as a foodstuff: “Macaroni and Beas.”
Daily Beast
When we speak, the artist Mike Denison is 308 Bea Arthurs down, with 57 to go. A fan of The Golden Girls and Arthur in particular, Denison is drawing the actress, one sketch a day for an entire year. “Bea a Day,” as he calls it, is the kind of strange-sounding thing Rose might announce at the kitchen table, as part of her interminable St. Olaf stories, leading Dorothy to gnaw at her wrist, or scream, begging for mercy, “Rose!”
Denison e-mails me a collection of his favorite sketches. In a riff on E.T., “B.T.” sees Dorothy taking her mother, Sophia, on the famous bicycle ride across the front of the face of the moon Elliott and his alien buddy did, the sweetness of the image undercut by Dorothy’s familiar menacing threat to return her mother to her much-hated retirement home: “Shady Pines, Ma.” “Happy Little Beas” is a spin-off of TV artist Bob Ross’ delight in painting some “happy little trees.”
One of Denison’s favorites sees Arthur, who died aged 86 in 2009, transformed into a diva-ish “Bea-yoncé”; another with her in a bikini taking a selfie in the sea; he’s even drawn her as a foodstuff: “Macaroni and Beas.”
Daily Beast
OMG this guy is great. From his Tumblr
This might be the greatest thing ever!
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Why isn't this on the Greatest Page?
she will always be Maude to me.
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