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Harry Reid hair particle sketch.

Hairy Reid sketch by Don Relyea

So after "110th Assembly, worst ever!" I was going to move on with other projects once again and try to put political art behind me. The horrendous bailout bill that my kids will be paying for with their hard earned tax dollars for the rest of their natural lives has angered me. So I am doing some exploratory sketches on the Senate leadership who pimped this atrocity to the congress against the will of the general population. Make no mistake about it, a general population is what we are.

I realize something needs to be done to free up the credit markets but it is disturbing to me that we are going to reward bad business decisions on such a massive scale while the individual tax payer gets little relief. The pork aspect of this bailout bill is insulting, CNN and Taxpayers for Common Sense have some insight into the pork factor, it includes a race track and provisions for wooden arrows among other things.

This picture of Harry Reid was done in the openframeworks version of my hair particle drawing program.

I may have to do another series on these senate clowns. This time though I am going to stick to black and white. I may choose to do fewer portraits and spend some time hunting for higher resolution source images. This sketch was done from a 147 pixel tall jpg. I think I need some better source images other than what I have been getting from the congress and senate web sites.

I also have a parody idea for a larger piece involving Bush, Paulson and Bernanke all in the same picture.

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