When Betsy and I were young kids we loved dressing up for Halloween. The big challenge each year was always what will I dress up as! what will I be! I found some delightful photos of Betsy dressed as the Easter Bunny for Halloween. There are two photos and she appears younger in one than in the other. But that bunny ear hat sure looks the same. I decided to combine them in my next painting. And there were those red boots again I’m thinking of focusing on in this painting too.

The wonderful old TV screams 1950s. I think it is an early Felix the Cat character on her goodie bag. I still have those Tupperware bowls her candy is in.

These are the beginning pencil sketches placing both Betsys on the background space.

The next addition to the painting places the younger Betsy with her Tupperware bowl of candy and those bunny ears.