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I love photography and painting, including watercolors, murals, and decorative furniture painting. Bucky on Parade is the fourth public art event like this that I have participated in. Prior public events include “Cat’n Around Downtown” canada goose outlet cheap and “Bears, Bears, and More Bears” in Racine, and “Art Zoobilee” at Madison’s Henry Vilas Zoo in which I painted an eight foot tall giraffe.
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Baller Bucky gets its first coat of paint.
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The sketched outline of Baller Bucky paw, which Wentland said was the hardest part of the design to complete.
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