Snoopy’s Dog House

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Halloween is almost here and I am so excited to share the final staging of this year’s theme, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”  I have painted a few murals for backgrounds and I have all the costumes ready, so keep your fingers crossed that it all comes together on Halloween night.  In the meantime, here’s my attempt at recreating Snoopy’s dog house.

Our pup, Chipper, will obviously be playing the role of Snoopy as the WWI Flying Ace, so I definitely had to build a dog house this year.  Since I have zero power tools, I used cardboard, making the whole dog house lightweight and easy to move around.  I used an entire can of red spray paint and then hand-painted the black lines to emphasize the cartoonish element Snoopy’s dog house.

I am considering keeping the dog house and after Halloween is over, decorating it for Christmas the way Snoopy does in the Charlie Brown Christmas Special.  We’ll see!

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I am writer and artist with a degree in art history who loves to talk to people about art. I have spent the last seven years building up The Wandering Art Historian “brand” as a way to connect with people who want to learn more about art. I give lectures and presentations and teach classes and host book club discussions with a creative or artistic connection. I also write about local artists, events, museums, and exhibitions to promote the arts in Central Florida. In 2021, I had a creative crisis. I struggled with authenticity in the art making process. I decided to make myself vulnerable and find out what a real, genuine Adrienne H. Lee artwork would look like. The process was challenging and emotional and revelatory. I learned that if necessity is the mother of invention, then authenticity is the mother of reinvention. I reinvented myself and learned an entirely new medium. The resulting artwork surprised me, and it will surprise you, too. Some people wish for a fairytale ending. For me, the fairy tale is only the beginning.