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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)
November 26, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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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)
December 13, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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#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.
January 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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"
December 17, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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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.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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.
December 15, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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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.
December 12, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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#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
November 27, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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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.
December 2, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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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.
December 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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.
December 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM