(AAA folder)

See this journal for an overview of the AAA series.

With this pic, I'm flying close to the quality of pics that might've made it into my VCL gallery (VCL's artwork is archived at https://www.vixencontrolled.net after the site itself ceased to function) back around the turn of the millennium. It might actually be there -- I haven't looked for this particular pic yet.

This was one of my early attempts at a funny picture, probably based on a slogan employed by Poland Spring, but more likely it was built entirely around parodying the company's name itself. Tina's reaction to the unexpectedly rotten tasting water is completely secondary :D (the controversies listed in the linked Wikipedia article were completely unknown to me at the time...I only learned about them glancing thru the article once I grabbed the URL.

Technical:
--Not a whole lot of technical stuff to talk about here. This was representative of much of the artwork I did in the era. Definitely long before I started performing digital touch-ups on my hand-drawn artwork. This image was actually scanned from a photocopy, something I did frequently at the time on pics that I thought I might do a marker-color job. Color the photocopy--if I screw it up, I still have clean copies to recover with.

Unlike many other pics produced during this period, I didn't put a date on this one...maybe. There might be one faintly visible on the original, whenever I find it (I rarely threw out any artwork during my most productive period, so its around here somewhere).

Pencil on copy paper inked with Rapidiograph pens. Composited using Micrografx Picture Publisher 10. Project ID# 526