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Taking place in Rabagliati's native Quebec during the heyday of Queen and Supertramp, "Summer Job" begins with Paul, the author's alter-ego, having just quit school and suffering the tedium of working at a printing press. Artistically inclined, he had acquired a government grant to paint murals on the school walls, but a ruthless principal pulled him off the job due to low marks. Bored, directionless and angry, the last stroke comes when Paul's pet bird dies. Luckily an acquaintance calls to offer Paul a job as a counselor at a woodsy camp for underprivileged children...
Little’s dedication to her craft shows through in her paint-splattered clothes and her habit of occasionally bringing wrenches and drill bits home by accident. Once she even wore a pair of safety goggles out of the theater without noticing...
...their first projects, Gogel and the Art Squatters plan to paint a mural on Bow Street during Arts First weekend. And Gogel says their goal of painting murals of every department building at Harvard aims to link the university with the artistic community of Cambridge...
...never had so much personal time. For anyone who is at all serious about reading or writing, traveling aboard a cargo ship such as the Ingrid Oldendorff is a dreamlike interlude of heavenly peace on earth. I suppose it would be the same for people who want to paint or embroider or listen to the works of Frank Zappa: you sleep when you want to, and when you wake up there's really nothing you have to do, which is the state of mind most conducive to doing what you want. The telephone in our cabin was a purely ornamental...
Sporting face paint and temporary tattoos, small children hobnobbed with such costumed characters as Scooby-Doo, Elmo and Winnie the Pooh...