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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Darcie and me, hungry and waiting for fam to show up so we can order. A 9x12" oil study for a larger painting which includes all of the famished at that end of the table. #oilpainting #portraits #art oh, and ps, Darcie if you see this, order another round for us!

9x12" oil painting of the torsos and hands of two women sitting side by each. They are hungry, waiting at a restaurant for family to join so they can order! Both hold empty green salad plates. The woman on the right, dressed in a blue tee and who wears glasses and has stylish short hair, is taking a bite out of her plate. Cropped, dark haired woman on the left grimaces and scoops a spoon on her empty plate. This is a study for the complete scene of the comsumers of empty dishes.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We have been watching a hawk this winter, who has been watching our birb feeders and meadow. Brekkers! #snow #hawks #raptors #winter

Snow with hawk wing imprints and "hop marks" there is blood in the deepest imprint of some unfortunate lil rodent.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#canadageese with our portion of this early December snow just now arriving, I wonder when their collective will signal it’s time to skeedaddle south outta Maine 🤨

Canada geese roosting in a meadow that leads down to a river in Maine. The snow is just beginning ro stick and some of the hunkered down geese are dusted with a layer.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Happy 80th to #NeilYoung Watercolors, Derwent w/c and Inktense pencils, gouache on 140 lb Fabriano Artistico watercolor paper. 14x10" Ref 2019 photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP #heroesandheels #portraits #watercolors

Watercolor portrait of musician Neil Young with piercing blue-eyed gaze directed at viewer. He wears a scruffy woven straw (?) hat, has grizzled gray hair and mutton chop sideburns.

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The citizen formerly known as a Prince. #princeandrew Reference screengrab from BBC Newsnight, Andrew Windsor now faces more "music." Whew, boy. Watercolor, Derwent Inktense and gouache on 140 lb. Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. 14x9.5" 2022 #heroesandheels portrait #epsteinfiles #epsteinlist

Watercolor portrait of the royal formerly known as Prince Andrew ( I guess they still call him that, huh...) His chubby royal face is on the right side of the paper, he is nervously giving a sideeye to his right. What will come out next about my naughty activities, he must wonder... As recently seen on BBC Newsnight, Andrew Windsor will face the music as a private citizen. Watercolors, Derwent w/c and Inktense pencils and gouache on 140 lb. Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. 14x9.5" This is a portrait I did in 2022.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Rainy Sunday: Canada geese heard splashing and honking like fools on a Maine river

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/09/2025

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

My new 'crumb-catcher' neck warmer with two buttons from the fabulous stash of polyclay buttons that @mjcrochet.bsky.social made for me. #crochet pattern is corner to corner and the yarn is 24/7 cotton.

Dark teal and olive green (weird combo, yeah, but I think it works here!) crochet neck scarf laid out on a periwinkle quilted spread. The scarf is folded over itself so it forms a point that forms over low sternum. Two colorful polyclay spiral buttons hold the scarf in this folded position. I call it a crumb catcher, haha on me. The crochet pattern is "corner to corner" and the yarn is cotton 24/7 and is maybe dm weight.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

🤭 ❤️ This brilliant pin cushion by @mjcrochet.bsky.social A reserve of straight pins is nearby so I can *precisely* pierce whilst fondly murmuring obscenities and profane wishes for the stinky orange faced rat bastard who this voodoo doll, erm, pin cushion, resembles. #crochet #dolls #voodoodolls

A bright orange sort-of round, crocheted pin cushion that has two pins (so far) in it on the top. It has scant comb-over style yarn strands for hair, ears that stick out (especially the one on the LEFT) beady eyes under blonde eyebrows, a blobby nose and pink protruding lips/orifice with two rows of "teeth" There is also a long, red tie dangling down. I confess to yelling fond profanities and obscenities at this as I pass by it.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Numerous volunteer catnip plants in my Irish Moss patio; time to dry catnip! Some of the leaves are nearly as big as my hand. Good project for the day before #Caturday

Stone and Irish moss patio with a round plastic screen dehydrator layer. The dehydrator grid is covered with catnip leaves, a few of them are nearly as large as my hand! A stem of catnip off to the side. Note: you can't see them in the photo but I had to battle little ants when snipping leaves from stems, the plants are just beginning to bloom and the ants are v interested in that.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"Hungry!" 8x10" oil WIP study for a larger version. The reference pic is us sitting at a pub table in NH, USA, waiting on some late fam members so we could order FOOD. #oils #wip #hungry #oilpaintings

Oil painting study, 8x10", on small wood easel on the right. Reference photo on the left. The reference and study show five people sitting at a pub table, (waiting for family to arrive to order FOOD) fou of us are holding up plates either biting the plate, holding it up, empty, or scraping at the empty plate with a spoon. Beers and iced tea glasses are on the table as well as a plate that previously held chips and salsa. Elderly woman focal point in bkgd, she's turned and speaking to someone who is hidden behind one of the subjects. :)

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Mr Wonderful and me. He's been gone for nine years but, oh, my heart still aches for my Mister Mister. Oil on 8x8" canvas panel. #oils #oilpainting #portraits #pets

Square painting of a black and white tuxedo cat's face with a woman's eyes, forehead and brown hair waving in the wind visible behind him. She is holding him on her lap. Mr Wonderful, the cat, has big green eyes and is commanding the attention of the viewer. The background is pale aqua. The painting is 8x8"

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Mom Jane getting nuzzled affectionately by her Lexie girlcat. 10 x 10” oils on canvas #MothersDay #portrait #oilpainting

Smiling gently, a woman with gleaming silver hair and wearing reading glasses is nuzzled on the chin by a fuzzy tabby girl cat named Lexie.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

One month gone, Chitra was with us for twenty years! Sweet ChiChi, I miss you so, SO much. I'll see you again when I 'go the trip.' #cats #RIP #pets #Caturday

Chitra, the tabby girlcat, nestling in a crinkly lime green tunnel toy, backlit so she glows. Big green eyes giving me "that look" that said she was the boss of me. (She was)

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Two tiny, broken figurines made an exact fit. The duck und the maus (mit seasoning) in oils on a scrap of canvas... a 4x4" study, so eentsy, quick and fun. Oh, what music was on while I was working, you ask? Elliot Smith XO #oilpainting #painting #oils #art

4x4" scrap of canvas, taped to a board. Painting of a cobbled together tiny repaired figurine of a mouse body with a duck head glued onto it; sits in front of the painting of it and has tiny salt and peppers behind it. Foreground is a neutral tan and background is dark viridian mix.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Chitra, our quite-senior girlcat, is assistant char lady today. She judges and MrrroWs the precise moment when the flames go to glowing coals. 😭 (oh, but that floor level cross-wind in our old New England farmhouse is brutal in this cold snap)

American tabby cat, Chitra, (20 years old gal), sitting right in front of a jotul fireplace insert with her feets and arms tucked under her. Looking in the direction of the camera, she has a judging look because of the cold.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This pic is from another era, 2011, when Maine reliably got lots and lots of snow. Sigh, yesterday we got mayyybe 3" and the sun is sublimating it steadily. Times change, eh. #climatechange #snowman #snowwoman #winter #maine

Two snowman busts in a pile of snow with trees behind them. Left, a Snow Buffoon with a cap pulled over his smallish cranium, a huge schnozzola and pursed lips, ready to quaff his tankard of weak ale. Right, Val Kyrie, his dame, ignores him, her nose in the air. Long side braids trail down from her hair.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

#Ivanka, ever her sire's desire, in 2020 published a photo of herself with a can of beans. My sketch is from 2022, but those beans had expired in '21. That can's got to be so *ripe* by now💥 🫘🫘🫘 #comrade #RodeoClown #shill #HellisEmpty #HeroesandHeels #art #watercolors #sketches #portraits

Face and hands of the Ivanka character flutters her false eyelashes, shows her porcelain veneer teefs and brandishes a gooey, about-to-explode can of Goya black beans at the camera. (label says they expired in 2021, ha ha little joke) She is wearing a butter yellow blouse, and a big gold colored necklace. Those beans ... who is going to spill them? Watercolors, gouache, Derwent w/c pencils and Inktense pencils on 140 lb. Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. 12x9.5 inches.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My 2022 sketch re Leon the puppet master and meddler, from when he began mucking up the old Twitter site. He's got a big mouth, dull views and no-soul dead eyes. Now, smh, he might be nominated for House Speaker!? #HellisEmpty #heroesandheels #portraits #watercolorportraits #housespeaker #thisIShell

watercolor portrait of Elon with his huge always open pie hole WIDE open to fit a smart phone facing forward. Screen of the smart phone is on the old twitter site and reads: Enlo Mask @enlomask 1 following; 44bn followers. Account Suspended. Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter rules. His eyes are blank and soul-less.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Citizen Formerly Known as a Prince, Andy Windsor, looking kinda sketchy in my 2022 #watercolorportrait Odd how this guy bobs up into our sightline every so often, with swirling stinkiness or controversial wafting about him. #art #portraits #RandyAndy #usefulidiot #HeroesandHeels #HellisEmpty

As seen on BBC Newsnight in 2022, my watercolor portrait of Andrew Windsor (looking nervous and guilty) will now face the music as a private citizen. Whew. Watercolors, Derwent w/c and Inktense pencils and gouache on 140 lb. Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. 14x9.5"

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Dr Oz, attempts to approximate a human-like facial expression. Maybe he is slightly more sane than RFK Jr, but not by much. 4x4" oil #portrait because I didn't want to waste too much space on him. #oilpainting #portraits #art #politicalfigures #crazyeyes #HellisEmpty #HeroesandHeels

4x4" oil portrait of Dr Oz, another crazy-eyes kind of guy, like RFK Jr. He is pressing his lips in a "smile-grimace" approximating a human emotion (not successfully.) His eyes are gazing directly at us (as seen on a YouTube video) and I have made his creepy eye pupils resemble feline pupils. His white button shirt is loose at the neck and he's wearing a sports jacket.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

At least SOMEbody is staying warm on this cold New England morning. 😼 #cats #catsofbluesky #woodstove #fireplaceinserts #seniorcats

Tiger cat curled up on a gray hearth rug in front of a Jøtul fireplace insert. Chitra is 20 years old and it's hard for her body to regulate temp so when the fireplace is not going she is on her far infrared jade and tourmaline heating pad that has a 4 hour timer.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The Dragon Emperor won't be attending the #inauguration of his subordinate in January. #Xi sent his regrets to the incoming regime's THIRSTY invitation. #HellisEmpty #HeroesandHeels #portraits #editorialportraits #watercolor #sketches

Watercolor editorial portrait of Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, who has a judgmental look on his face. He is wearing a fur-trimmed, pearl bedecked, colorful embroidered robe of the Dragon Emperor. His steely hair is combed back from his forehead. (enviable hairline, I must admit) Watercolor, gouache, Inktense pencil and Micron pen on 11x14” Canson Mix Media spiral notebook. Reference photo: Xi Jinping, just before his arrival in Russia in June, 2019. (Ref. photo: AP, Mark Schiefelbein)

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

2019 #watercolor #sketch of Wilbur Ross, who didn't "understand" WHY furloughed federal workers might need to access food banks. This Canson mixed media paper bucked and pilled like crazy with all the water and spit I used on his arrogant smug arse. What. #portraits #HellisEmpty #HeroesandHeels

Watercolor sketch of Wilbur Ross, Sec of Commerce 2017 - 2021. He is wearing glasses and squinting into the camera with disdain. Ref pic snagged from a 2019 NBC news appearance. Pencil, watercolor and Inktense pencils in an 11x14" Canson Mix Media spiral notebook.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My 2018 sketch of enigmatic Maria Butina, the NRA's and Putin's bestest Russian lobbiest EVER. Gotta say, what a doll, eh? #heroesandheels #HellisEmpty #watercolors #sketches #portraits #dolls

Watercolor sketch I made in 2019 of Maria Butina, the darling lobbiest of the NRA and best buddies with many GOP congress of that era. Depicted as a matryoshka (Russian nesting doll) Her auburn hair is tucked into her hood and her expression is bleak. Her red-fingernailed hands grip a black handgun delicately. She was an effective and divisive NRA lobbying tool in the first iteration of the Trump regime.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Hunter pardon was a total Dark Brandon move. This acrylic sketch from 2022 was a WIP snapshot. Sadly, I ruined it w/more work so does that make it NFT? #heroesandheels #acrylics #portraits #art #darkbrandon #Biden

Acrylic sketch of Joe Biden from a tv screenshot. Dark mottled bkgd, he is in stark lighting and looks kind of fierce. The painting doesn’t exist now, my subsequent work on it ruined the likeness so I covered it with gesso and another painting.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#MerrickGarland, as he addressed the DOJ on 5 Jan., 2022. Sketched back when I held a glimmer that he might "save America." The "welp" look on his face speaks volumes. #HeroesandHeels #HellisEmpty #art #watercolors #portraits #politicalfigures #sketches Reference photo by Carolyn Kaster/UPI

Watercolor sketch of Attorney General of the whole United States, Merrick Garland, as he addresses the DOJ on 5 Jan., 2022, regarding the scope of his insurrection investigations. Will he demonstrate who is [not] above the law? Watercolors, Derwent w/c and Inktense pencils, acrylic ink on 140 lb. Fabriano 1264 watercolor paper. 13x10" Ref. photo by Carolyn Kaster/UPI

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Before the current #HellisEmpty era, there was #HeroesandHeels from the first Tramp regime. Rudy played a prominent role in that first iteration; not so much this time, eh?(ref pic appeared online, Rolling Stone, 2019) #portraits #watercolors #arts #politicalfigures #politics #ettd

9x12ish watercolor illustration of Rudy Guiliani's face, from better days. Mouth open, shows his teefs. Glasses cast shadows that drape down his face. He's looking upward. Reflections in his glasses look like musical notes on staff. Color range resembles bruise colors. ETTD (everything tr*mp touches dies)

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thinking about upcoming confirmation hearings ... On 4 April, 2019, during David Bernhardt's Senate confirmation hearing, a woman quietly slipped into a Swamp Creature mask! The mask's eyes perfectly convey my trepidation re the next FOUR YEARS. #watercolors #arts #sketches #politics #portraits

Watercolor and ink sketch of 2 April, 2019 Senate confirmation hearing for David Bernhardt's appointment to Secretary of Interior. David's face and torso are to the right of the 9x12" drawing. He's talking and there is a microphone in front of him. Toward the left is a bright green swamp creature mask, which a woman had quietly slipped onto her head once the procedure got underway.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"Dying to Get In" is quite a fun read with come-to-life characters by Maine-based author, @pji1.bsky.social 📚 #Maine #Maineauthors #fiction #retirementcommunities

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Quit working on it while I was "ahead"; Steve Miller's sketch was beginning to resemble Prince William. And I was making that "something stinks" face that I made while painting RFK, Jr. 🤪 9x7" #oils #portraits #HellisEmpty #arts #paintings

9x7" oil sketch on prepared watercolor paper. Three-quarter view of Stephen Miller giving the world his best vampiric side eye. Sick, greenish swirl behind him. Unfinished suitcoat shows underpainting (which I used to cover up a watercolor I didn't like, ha!)

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here's a dude whose soul has completely vanished. Got to a point while painting when I realized I was frowning and making a "something stinks" face. Halted the activity to keep MY soul intact! #RFK #HellisEmpty #oils #portraits #art #insane

6x6" oil sketch of RFK, Jr., head and shoulders, staring blankly at the camera (reference pic is a tv screenshot.) White hair, soul-less pale blue eyes, walnut-hued skin with a gray pallor. Red tie, white shirt, dark suit.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Put the finishing touches on Matty G. (Whew, what a world we live in.) 5x5" #oils #portraits #HellisEmpty #publicfigures #cognitivedissonance

5x5" oil painting of Matt Gaetz's face, referenced from a screenshot of him "speaking" at July '24 CPAC. Pointed, drawn in eyebrows, v strange hooded eyelids (did he have work done?) and his mouth open with teeth showing.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Matty G, the Atty G nom ... should be fiction. Getting *some*where with a likeness but I think my version of him is too perky. Almost George Santos-ish. 5x5", water soluble #oils on Stonehenge Heavy watercolor paper. #portraits #devils #HellisEmpty #cognitivedissonance #MattGaetz

Two images of Matt Gaetz; left, a bw printout of a screengrab from his July CPAC appearance last summer. Right, a 5x5" oil portrait using the print as reference. Blue and violet background behind Matt's Head and shoulders. He's got really pointy, Jack Nicholson eyebrows, very odd eye creases.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This guy is a street dog's best friend. He's under 10k followers at the moment ... Consider giving him a follow, please? I'd ❤️ to see his posts here! #dogs #strays

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Last night, I switched from #watercolors to #oils to try and get my mojo back (i.e., snag *some* kind of likeness!?) This 4x4" oil of Atty G/Matty G turned out to resemble Paul Manafort 🤣 #portraits #HellisEmpty Got a likeness, just not the one I was aiming for.

4x4" oil sketch which is supposed to be Matt Gaetz but more favors traitor Paul Manafort. Dark hair, male pattern hairline, downturned mouth and piercing eyes looking atcha.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

#Mueller couldn't save us from Tramp's first scorching. Jack Smith isn't going to save us this time. I have to do what I can to exorcise the demons; drawing usually works for me. When I made this sketch in 2017, I had such high hopes. #watercolor #watercolors #portraits #HellisEmpty

Watercolor sketch of Robert Mueller's torso, his watery eyes gaze upwards. Wears a blue suit white shirt and tie. Sketched as seen on tv in October 2017.

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Going to post some older portraits until, erm, I get 'brushed up' on my editorial portraiture skills again. 😂 Just a tad rusty! Here is my 2017 scratching of Sec Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, done from a pic I saw on tv. #watercolor #portraits #editorial #hellisempty

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Rebecca Reinhart @rebeccasketcha.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

In 2015, Rep. Bob Brady attended a luncheon with the Pope. Afterward he snuck over and sipped from the Pope's water tumbler. (Bottoms up, Bob, way to go) Was compelled to scratch this onto paper to work out the filthy vibe it gave me. One of my first editorial portraits.

Rep. Bob Brady, sipping from the Pope's water glass after a luncheon. His eyes are beady, his lips are thin and stingy, and his hand grips the glass so as not to smear the Pope's fingerprints.

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