The other day, I shared this ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos video of a guy playing with puppies, with a friend on facebook… she is not just any dog lover, but a world-renowned artist who specializes in paintings of dogs. Other animals sometimes come out of her brush, but mostly… Dogs. She is also President of the Animal Shelter on San Juan Island and an all around champion of animal rights. Here she is in her studio holding my favorite Dog Painting, and you can view her work here… JAIME ELLSWORTH
Jaime Ellsworth “No…but we could be long-lost twins separated at birth by a baby snatching nurse who sold him off for money for cash to gamble away in Vegas. She drank too much and lost all the money, and then felt so guilty about her dirty deed that she became a hooker to try to buy the baby back. Sadly that was her downfall as she became addicted to heroin and spent every penny she had on drugs. My brothers faux parents could never figure out why he preferred the company of dogs so much because they were told his real parents were busy astronauts and never had any attachment to animals or children as they were always in space. As a child he was never allowed to have a pet and made up for it in his adulthood by stalking people at pet stores who bought puppy chow and followed them home, waited until they went to work and climbed in the puppies play yards to fill his heart with all the puppy love he was so denied as a child……….to be continued…. “
So what do you think? Artist becomes Author? I for one am looking forward to the ‘to be continued…’
To see a previous TedBook story about The Painter of Dogs, and a show at Waterworks Gallery in Friday Harbor…
DOG SHOW… Sort of…
