Fiddles and Fistfights

Watercolor method study. #artistsoninstagram #watercolor

Come meet everyone’s favorite Mormon at #NOCAZ this weekend!

Bloody Babs, party girl and lover of Stravinsky and various johns, who got mixed up in malarkey that ended in her demise in the gas chamber. #dancehalldames

Ethel Rosenberg was accused, with her husband Julius, of selling plans for atomic weaponry to the Soviets after WWII. Though others had been found guilty of the same thing, only the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death. #dancehalldames #illustratorsofinstagram

Red, watercolor painting

Watercolor portrait, Chris

"Dovie" Dean poisoned her husband for "being unable to perform his husbandly duties." #dancehalldames

Watercolor portrait- Kristen

Betty Butler drowned her lover (the woman she claims made her a "sex slave") in the lake after a bucolic boat ride--in the presence of all of the parkgoers there that day. #dancehalldames

Watercolor portrait -Peter #illustratorsofinstagram #watercolor

Lena Baker was defending herself from her white employer when they wrestled for his gun. He ended up dead; she ended up in the electric chair. In 2005, she was granted exonerated & her actions described as self-defense.

Watercolor portrait - Noe #illustratorsofinstagram #watercolor

Watercolor portrait - Dan

Illustration for a third grader's fabulous story about going to magic school! #bigclass

The Dancehall Dames. Trading cards of executed women of the 20th century.

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