2007-07-30 Monday night at AACA, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Every Monday night I attend an AACA meeting. The acronym stands for ‘Al-Anon Adult Children of Alcoholics’. I attend because my mom was a fulltime alcoholic, and my dad was a …
2007-07-27 Lu Tatt Finessed — Duotone Cropped, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. A while back, I did a rough concept painting for a tattoo for a buddy of mine. Last night, I got a bee in my bonnet, and decided it …
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2007-07-21 After (for Illustration Friday — ‘Poem’), originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This one’s for the Illustration Friday topic, ‘Poem’. Which kinda ties into the Illustration Friday Night topic of ‘My Favourite Song Lyric’. It IS a poem. And I do …
0014 Matinee Soup ‘Fur Trade’, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. At last! A new Matinee Soup! Thanks to Wim for motivating me to get off my butt and do a new one. This pic was made in ArtRage 2.2 on my …
I received a letter from someone in response to the video I made about being an adult child of abuse. Characteristics of Adult Children of Abuse — Roy’s Story The video is on YouTube, and the letter was sent via …
2007-07-15 Roller Coaster, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This roller coaster combines two challenges…. The Illustration Friday topic this week is ‘Discovery’. And the Illustration Friday Night theme is ‘Accident’. Here we have a group of intrepid explorers discovering the extent …
2007-07-08 Illustration Friday — ‘Geeky’ — Lock, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic — ‘Geeky’ — coincided with a need for me to exercise my inner geek. Someone in my block of flats doesn’t seem to understand …
2007-07-05 Dogkiller Wifebeater2, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. The previous version of this picture wasn’t working for me. So I zapped the ArtRage layers into Photoshop CS2. I flipped the man and dog horizontally, even though I was fairly convinced in …
2007-07-05 Dogkiller Wifebeater, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I know someone whose husband beat her systematically for around 23 years. She left him. He phoned her the other day, sobbing like I’ve never heard anyone sob before. It sounded like a …
2007-07-01 Illustration Friday — Twist — J taking Roy down, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. With Illustration Friday‘s topic this week being ‘Twist’, I thought it would be a good time to pull out all the stops. So I asked J …
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