Day 3 of Inktober - Women I Admire - Mary Edwards Walker

 Day 3 of my series of 31 women I admire is Mary Edwards Walker.

Just over 3500 people have won the Medal of Honor, and only ONE of them is a woman. One? Serious? Anyway...Mary Edwards Walker was an  abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war and surgeon. Two years before she died, the Army removed her name from the MOH list, but reinstated it in 1977. She put up with a lot of shit because she refused to wear stereotypical women’s outfits. She would go into enemy territory and care for the wounded when nobody had the balls to do it. 

25th President of the United States - William McKinley

 William McKinley - 25th President of the United States - Graphite

President McKinley just looks like that asshole who would fire you right before you retire. He joined the Union Army at the age of 18 and served under future president Rutherford B. Hayes. When the battleship Maine was destroyed off the coast of Cuba, the Spanish-American War broke out and within months, we beat the shit out of Spain’s navy, giving the United States control of Cuba, the Philippine Islands, and Puerto Rico, three nations that are not oil-rich nations, sooo … yeah. His wife hated the color yellow so much that she had anything in the White House yellow, removed. Six months into his presidency, he was shot and killed by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, NY. The crowd grabbed Leon and beat the shit out of him as the president was whisked away in an ambulance. McKinley’s face is on the $500 bill, something I have never seen in person. 

Inktober 2020 - Women I Admire - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 Day 2 of my series of 31 women I admire is none other than the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg who made one of my favorite quotes, "women belong in all places where decisions are being made."

Hocus Pocus display

 Thought I'd make something festive for the house for fall. This wasn't a commission or anything, just a fun project to ring in the holidays. If you'd like prints, you can check out my etsy store: 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/866510332/hocus-pocus-not-your-basic-witch?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

24th President of the United States - Grover Cleveland

 Grover Cleveland  - 24th President of the United States - Graphite

Wait, didn't you already see this one? You bet your sweet ass you did. The nation thought Benjamin Harrison did such a shitty job that they elected Cleveland for a second term. When he left office the first time, his wife Frances told a White House Staff member, "Now, Jerry, I want you to take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house, for I want to find everything just as it is now, when we come back again." When asked when she would return, she responded, "We are coming back four years from today." He modernized the military, and said, "fuck you" to women voting until the very end. 

Inktober 2020 - Women I Admire - Harriet Tubman

Throwback Thursday

TBT this was back almost 15 years ago. I had just gotten out of the Army a year or two before drawing these. I was running a small art store at Fort Lee and just as I was wrapping these up, the Army uniform was changing. Timing...my timing was off.