Vanity

I don't know anybody named Vanity, do you? I know a couple of girls whose mothers named them Placenta and Vagina but not Vanity. Yes, some mothers are stupid.

Below are images I incorporated on my recent drawing which I finished today. These are symbols of vanity and I wanted to post them for Illustration Friday but I did not meet the deadline. The images include Putto and wasted time, ostentatious display of jewelry, skull, blowing bubbles, Satan holding the mirror of vanity, bird skeleton and the Whore of Babylon. It was interesting reading about the symbols of vanity.

Yesterday, there was not much left to do with the illustration. In fact, I enhanced some of the details just to extend its drawing life because I need to be able to do something next week while sitting in the waiting room for some scheduled procedures. I realize I needed to start a new drawing soon. Anyhow, here is Vanity. 

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Tamarins

It's terrible how some ignorant, stupid and greedy humans treat wild animals mostly endangered and rare as resources for consumption and meet their insane desire to collect  rare animals. They do not mind if the animal species reach extinction. They poach rhinos for Chinese traditional medicine; steal tamarins from zoos and sanctuaries; they massacre entire communities of flying lizards in Davao and skewer and roast them to sell for pagan Filipino tribal medicine; they allow Chinese smugglers to invade their provinces so they can kill pangolins in Palawan, again, for Chinese traditional medicine. Lord knows what they will do with the stolen tamarins  in today's news. These two species of animals stolen from a London zoo surprised me because last week I was looking for bearded animals to incorporate in my drawings. I chanced upon the mustachioed and bearded emperor tamarins and the beard-less but hairy cotton-top. On the left is a Cotton-top tamarin. with her two babies. In the middle are  Emperor tamarins.  Cotton top monkeys are extremely sensitive to changes in their environment so these animals must be frightened from the ordeal. I can only think that these thieves and their recipients have no regard for humanity.

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