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The Blue Jay’s Friend (ACEO)<\/cite><\/a><\/div>\nWatercolor pencils and graphite on Arches hot press paper. Finally “finished” .. though still had to fight with the scanner.<\/p>\n
Small prints, magnets, that kinda thing are available at deviantArt<\/a>. Maybe more places later. Maybe a “Charming Pumpkins” Cafepress and\/or Zazzle shop with this and Jack-o-the-Moon<\/a> and Zucchini Moon<\/a> and … I dunno, maybe the witchy<\/a> ladybugs<\/a>. Should I dig up some useful time to do this in.<\/p>\n The original would be for sale too if I could figure out where I left it. I thought<\/i> I’d put it in the ACEO card holder … but … no…. Huh.<\/p>\n Oh yeah: Art copyright \u00a9 2013 Kirsten Talmage<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Y’all already saw this if you’re following me elsewhere, but hey. The Blue Jay’s Friend (ACEO) Watercolor pencils and graphite on Arches hot press paper. Finally “finished” .. though still had to fight with the scanner. Small prints, magnets, that kinda thing are available at deviantArt. Maybe more places later.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87,8,12],"tags":[55,56,156,28,154,29,157,155,54,42,24,153],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-wanted","category-art","category-shameless-commerce","tag-aceo","tag-atc","tag-autumn","tag-birds","tag-blue-jay","tag-colored-pencil","tag-fall","tag-farm","tag-halloween","tag-mixed-media","tag-pencil","tag-pumpkin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-3I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":220,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/the-gnome-gourmand-aceo\/","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":0},"title":"the Gnome Gourmand ACEO","author":"Kir","date":"1 July 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"the Gnome Gourmand ACEOInk, watercolor, and watercolor pencils on watercolor ACEO blank. 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