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Published: 2007-07-14 18:28:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 11777; Favourites: 162; Downloads: 0
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There Are Some Things They Will Never Know; 18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas.Completed July 2007.
"...Once they had purchased (the books), they took the books home, read and re-read them, cherished them, and then hid them behind the fridge, in shoe boxes in their closets, under mattresses. It was a life-changing event if a spouse, a parent, or even a child found the books and challenged the reader." -- foreword to the 2001 edition of "Odd Girl Out" by Ann Bannon
Good golly some pieces I fight with over and over and some take a few short minutes. This took me 4 days of painting 2-3 hour sessions, as opposed to the 10 weeks this one took me:
Although that one was 3 times the size of the one above.
Gifted to Ann Bannon.
Apologies for the watermark. This is why it's necessary: My Strange Encounter With an Art Thief on dA .
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Comments: 132
love this! wow... just everything about it. technically, its so well painted and composed and everything. and i love her expression and the situation and everything.
plus there's a cat so that's a bonus.
really nice work!
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There's just something so humorous and yet unfortunately bitter in the truth of it. I just love this painting.
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shit son - this is amazing! You really captured the characteristics of the girl! Great work!
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Why, thank you, my child. Rock on!
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deserve this so much. Fantastic picture. Love the colours, lighting, expression.
I'm so proud of you hun.
To me the picture seems really cluttered, I like that you've captured a moment in time, alot of paintings on here are really set out, and posed. To me this is like a still from a film. Theres so much movement in it. Especially in the cat. It just goes to show that details aren't everything, its like how kids paint, everything fits in place and has meaning within the box that its painted.
well done again xxx
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Thanks so much! I was thrilled, of course. I love this piece to bits and it goes to show me how freaked out I can get. I don't believe I actually painted it - it's very weird.
I'm so glad you got to see it. I love your comments, always.
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aww thanks
and I always love you work. x
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this is really awsome
her expression is great, and the pose came out realy well
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"A book or two?" I'm all agog.
Thanks for the comments!
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I adore this work of yours! My best to you and yours!
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Thanks so much! I'm still watching you, still as impressed as ever..
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Wow...this is such an interesting painting - well done. I must say, I quite like the style of it. The idea you used to paint it is a good one, and I love the style used. Bravo!
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Thanks so much! I truly do appreciate your comments!
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Thanks so much. I appreciate it
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I would love to read that book! 
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Try here: [link]
There are 5 books in the series. Get those too.
Thanks so much! 
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I'll try!
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Yah, oops. How America-centered of me. Try this instead: [link]
The rest of the books are listed a little further down the page.
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amazing work, great sense of humour and beautiful colors!!! A++++
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Thanks so much for visiting and for the comments!!
Yay!
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hey no problem you have some great work!!!!would you mind visiting my page? hehe just a thought!
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Awesome work.
"..captures wonderfully the subterfuge and excitement of the sexual awakening gay females experienced throughout the 20th century due to increasingly bold and eye opening literature. "
Males too!
Congrats on the DD!
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Thanks! 
Gotcha on the males, too. Gore Vidal used to write pulp under a different name. The more I get into pulp the more interesting it becomes.
Thanks so much for visiting and for the comments!!
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Your welcome!
Keep up the good work.
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wow and wow!!!! I am so impressed by the emotion in this painting. It takes a true talent to get that across. I am nervous and excited for her. I'm glad that there was an outlet and hidden strength for women back then. well done!!!!
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Thank you! *YOU* are why I created this. Anyone who sees it and knows what it is - is why I created it.
For that reason I am very glad you like it.
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AAWwwwww!!^^ That's awesome!!! You are so welcome!! I might just have to +watch so I can see what else you have to offer!!
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Gotta love lesbian pulp.
It's really sad that I have to be like that even now. Even though I'm out to my parents, they still don't know how active I am in the GLBT community (as a writer and avid reader of queerfic, and hopefully the future co-pres of the GSA at my high school), and I'm sort of afraid of what will happen when they find out.
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It's a good time to look back on this kind of fear in our history and realize we're not really that far behind it. The 1920's in Germany were quite a liberated time for a lot of people. The pendulum can swing right back. We should congratulate ourselves on how far we've come, but these kinds of reminders should be brought up to make sure we don't go back. Yeah, in some ways, the good old days sucked, but there are good reasons to remember them.
Thanks so much for commenting. And love the Kermit quote!
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Well said, dear.
You're welcome, and thank you. I love Kermit. ^.^
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Oh I wish I'd be able to paint like that. The expression on her face is priceless, and I just love her body language.
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Thanks!
I'm so glad you enjoy it!!
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much deserved for your super painting. I enjoy painting but im horrible at mixing the right colors, I just get annoyed and stop haha
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hehe, being a fan of books, i can't imagine it being forbidden from me. I think i would seriously wither and die.
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The author of the book in the woman's hands, Ann Bannon, describes what it was like to buy these books. Because they were pulp, I guess today's equivalent of a Harlequin or other trashy books, they were sold in bus stations, drug stores and such and the cashier always gave a knowing leer at folks buying the lurid and suggestively covered books - especially with 2 women looking at each other on them.
They were considered trash because of the subject, but some of them were very well-written. In a vacuum of literature and knowledge about what one's life might be like in making these realizations, it was all some women had. Some of them were gems - they still are.
Thanks again, ladycaasi.
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