Time for some humorous etegami

 Sometimes, it's just fun to paint something funny.

Animals can certainly conjure some funny etegami

 I have a friend who we only see now and then (they live far from us),

but he loves to say "Bite me" a lot.

You know. Like when you say, that's a strange color shirt"

he would say "Bite me!"

In fact, he has a shirt that says Bite Me in 8 different languages!!

For fun, I sent him this etegami. (He LOVED it!)

I love the photography of Joel Sartore of National Geographic Photo Ark,

 who is documenting as many animal species in captivity as he can.

He does beautiful portrait work of these animals

and I love to paint them.

 Both the cheetah above and the mandrils below are from his collection.

This one, from a Beatles song

 Another friend always wanted to stay in the background of photos

to hide her "long neck". Well, I think long necks are beautiful!

 I mean, Audrey Hepburn? hello!!

A Japanese friend gave us "unagi pie" (eel pie) as a gift.

 It is from Hammamatsu where  their specialty harvest is eel.  

However, these are like a crispy sweet flaky cookie. 

They are delicious but are made with dried eel flour.

I LOVE them and they are nostalgic for me.

In my weird mind, I imagined the eel saying

"Whaaat? I'm going to be made into a pie? egads!!!"

This is a painting of a photo is from the Comedy Wildlife Photography contest.

I have painted several of them.

They will certainly bring a smile to your face.

Of course "it" rhymes with ......

The minute I finished this cute little giraffe, it was obvious what the words would be!!



This one, painted with a sharpened chopstick, was inspired by the clever saying.



The day after a new president was chosen (and you know who I'm talking about),
 I just couldn't believe it!! I felt upset, confused, sad.
So I guess this one really isn't so funny after all...