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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)
Wed May 28, 2014, 12:33 PM May 2014

The Holly Boy

https://www.etsy.com/listing/191091350/the-holly-boy-original-painting-folk?ref=shop_home_active_1

There used to be an old custom in some parts of England of the ‘Holly-Boy’, wherein the boys in the village built an effigy of holly known as the ‘Holly-Boy’. It was stolen by the young girls in the village and then burned.
Here is my fantastical and macabre interpretation of the folk tradition. Acrylic on canvas board 8" x 10".
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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)
2. At some point I'm probably going to get prints made.
Wed May 28, 2014, 01:16 PM
May 2014

I will probably also post that here, when they become available.
Thank you for looking.

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)
3. If at that time, I can afford that one and the other one I was interested in (a few weeks ago)
Wed May 28, 2014, 01:26 PM
May 2014

I would like to buy both. Do you remember the other one, off hand, that I was interested in?

I can search back and find if you don't.

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