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Portrait with Pet Bat

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Portrait with Pet Bat    11"x14"x1"     Acrylic on wood

There's a nursery/nonsense rhyme that turns up in several of my old children's books (Mother Goose & elsewhere) which goes:

Bat, bat,
Come under my hat,
And I'll give you a slice of bacon;
And when I bake
I'll give you a cake,
If I am not mistaken.

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I'm not sure if she lured him with bacon, or how exactly they got to know each other, but whatever treats she promised him aside: How nice to have a docile little bat to perch on your hand!

I wonder what his name is? Morris? ...or Mervyn? ...or Melvin?

More new pictures for your viewing amusement very soon. Illustrated ladies...forest weddings...beasts wild & tame.

January 22, 2013 in Art & Illustration (Mine) |

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