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Portrait of a missing girl.

Inspired by the one-inch black and white photo printed on a "Have you Seen me?" flier.

Oil paint on canvas, applied with a palette knife.

This one devastated me. As with the others, I allow you to speculate about this child's story...

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Ghostly and milky.
I'm re-reading the series by Caroline B. Cooney, the milk carton series.
(The face on the milk carton
Whatever happened to Janie?
The voice on the radio
What Janie found... blah blah blah)
And the gist is that a girl who was kidnapped sees her own picture on a milk carton.

This reminds me of that.
Because this is like, oily milk spilt on a counter top.

I really like this one, more than the others.

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dA: your one stop shop for child porn and shitty anime.
:iconkarlithelittletree:
She looks angelic and pure

I like the random little etches in the lower right corner, it looks like a background or landscape.
It looks like a pier to me.

Great work
:iconnekeko:
It's so beautiful~
As always your paintings leave a huge impression on me

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When ever I draw, I always have that feeling in my heart and the feeling tells me that I want to do this untill I die - J.C.
:iconmechanikill-toxin:
She was such a beautiful little girl... Wonder what happened to her. I was actually quite happy to see that'd you posted something new when I checked my messages. c:

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After playing around YouTube I finally discovered the man in your avatar was not some random pedophile. :bucktooth: - =captain-vodka
:iconluciferal:
Best thing to descibe it is angelic. Beautiful art and a beautiful girl.

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Show me how -defenseless- you really are.

LibertyRaisePastMoneyAlien.
:iconthespiritcarrieson:
:wow:

just amazing...

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infected with the flower fever :flowerpot:
:iconjohnpaulthornton:
Once again, your comments always inspire me!

What a thoughtful brain you have my dear... Your comments are always meaningful and specifically connected to personal observation and relationships to sensation.

Milky white...Milk-carton...(!) Your are poetic.


By the way, I met a boy who DID see his face on a flier one day when the mail came. That's when he realized that he had been abducted. His abductor ( step dad) saw the flier come in the mail at his office at the exact same time across town. Step dad tried to get home in time to move to a new city. He succeeded, but the boy now "knew" the truth... he was later safely recovered. I met him because his mother heard about my paintings. It turns out that I had painted him from that flier.
Really nice kid and mother...

Thank you again so much for your insights!

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Paint the Truth.
:iconjohnpaulthornton:
thank you for spending time with missing child 26.

The random paint in the background always surprises me. I always try to respect it, because it seems to suggest a place or state of feeling that I had not consciously envisioned.

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Paint the Truth.
:iconjohnpaulthornton:
Thank you for spending time with missing child 26.

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Paint the Truth.
:iconjohnpaulthornton:
thank you.

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Paint the Truth.

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June 25, 2008
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