wake up! art and commentary

 

today's index card a day prompt is "rooster" 

I searched google images and found a rooster with his mouth open... telling us to wake up! and I see that as very appropriate for our country this morning

I copied the image the size I needed, colored over the back with stabilo crayon, then placed it face up over the index card and drew the lines I wanted as reference. This is for personal use.

I painted it with KOI watercolors, my waterbrush, used staedtler fineliners for lines and lettering in my own font. 

Our Democracy is being threatened by people who do not believe in following laws, but in taking power through guns and force. This is not the country I grew up with. It's not even the majority of people who are okay with this take over... today as we shoot off fireworks and eat hot dogs, remember freedoms are not to do any damn thing you like, freedoms are to self govern through votes... and every American vote should count.  Remember Americans are not defined by race as one senator implied, and while I'm at it, women are citizens too and have rights as such.

If any state makes it harder to vote, do what it takes and vote to elect officials that will honor their vow to protect the constitution and follow it's laws

 Local, state and congressional representatives are setting policies.

thank you to the founding fathers who wanted our country to be the bastion of Democracy