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Just down the street from my studio in Woodbury, Connecticut, not much more than a 100 yards was the service for Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary school. She was the first person the gunmen saw upon entering  the school.  No one ever expects that you'd have to put your life on the the line doing your job as a teacher or administrator but that's just what she did. She along with the school psychologist lunged at the deranged individual that forced his way into the school.  They were both shot dead. The line of cars stretches for miles and miles. Woodbury was where Dawn was principal before she moved to Bethlehem Elementary and then Newtown where she had been principal for two years.



Woodbury is a town about half the size of Newtown but very similar in New England spirit as all these small towns are around here. Every year luminaries are placed around town, as seen in my painting on Christmas eve. Yesterday, in front of the funeral home of Dawn's service, those lumanaries spelled out the word "HOPE". Let's all HOPE and pray this is the last time we have to do this . Let's HOPE for tougher gun control and let's HOPE for better treatment of people with mental illness. I dedicate these hopefull paintings to the wonderful people of all these towns. An unbelievable sidenote to this unspeakable tragedy is this: Members of the quasi-religious group, Westboro Baptist Church, planned to gather in Connecticut to protest the funeral of Newtown, Conn., shooting victim Principal Dawn Hochsprung. However, Good Samaritans were already there to thwart any possible protest with a human wall.The Westboro Baptist Church announced plans to picket Hochsprung's funeral on Wednesday in Woodbury, Conn., and "sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment." The group has blamed the mass shooting on Connecticut's same-sex marriage legislation. On Dec. 14, 26 people were shot at Sandy Hook Elementary School, 20 of those victims included children ages 6 and 7. I received a town wide email stating that there could be protests. Disgusting!

Here's the hope image and the article re Westboro

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Thanks to Victor Juhasz for posting about Amid. I did a monthly column for him at Esquire. I remember him as a wonderful art director and just all around nice guy. Here's a couple of my pieces I had done for him over the years. Thanks Amid.

These were for a monthly piece called the House Hunter where Esquire scouted out great housing buys. They are Hawaii and Lousiana.

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Here is the final art.

final printed cover

Washington Ct





Educating Jack for Random House, London

Pampered Pets for Pet Busines magazine



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