Illustration I converted into a Christmas card
"Beggar on the Windowsill"
This was done with mixed media: pen and ink, a little water color—both translucent and opaque. Latex paint spatters for snow. The windowsill was done with prismacolor pencils (hard lead). Colors I used were dark brown and indigo blue -- something I thought was more exciting than if I used just a gray colored pencil.
I should mention that the windowsill emerged from a detailed drawing I did from a Victorian home in Philadelphia—didn’t want to use the BORING windowsills in my own home in North Carolina. The squirrel, however, lived in Raleigh, N.C. He visited our kitchen windowsill every day while we were eating.
We encouraged him 'cause we always gave him a peanut when he appeared. His name was “Tommy”.
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I checked out your website--enjoyed the black and white photos, and the colored ones as well--I'm sort of into color.
I once had a cat I rescued from the Philadelphia subway system, and brought him down to North Carolina. As hard as I tried, I could not convert him into being a total indoor cat. He was extremely intelligent but a great hunter of wild things, which I didn't like. Nevertheless, he made friends with all the squirrels. He never chased them and they never gave that warning call when he was out prowling the yard--unlike the loud warnings that a neighbor's cat would receive. Often when I opened the front door, "Buzz" the kitty, would walk up the front steps and RIGHT BY HIS SIDE was "Tommy". Buzz would come in and Tommy just waited for his Peanut. It was really something to behold! 
It makes me wish it was just one page of a whole book!
And the story makes me smile.
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