https://www.joshuaritchieart.com/home daily 1.0 2026-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b83bc8e2d93a6651694704/0ea0f767-9600-4bda-97ba-35e49731f1ef/IMG_7706.jpeg https://www.joshuaritchieart.com/gallery daily 0.75 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b83bc8e2d93a6651694704/1fd53b05-5e53-4847-b700-833769291770/IMG_8834.jpeg Gallery Storyteller - A watercolor portrait of my late paternal grandfather (Grandaddy), whose skill at storytelling remains, in my correct opinion, unmatched. 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You can’t pick locks with a pickle, You can’t cure the sick with a sickle, Pluck figs from a figment, Drive pigs with a pigment, Nor make your watch tick with a tickle. […] A bat can’t be made out of batter, A flat’s not a thing that can flatter, A pond does not ponder, A wand will not wander, And that’s the end of our patter. [Available] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b83bc8e2d93a6651694704/0f2c2ad0-cb0e-4adb-a272-5bf146d942ba/IMG_2172.jpeg Gallery ‘His father was a whale, With a feather in his tail, Who lived in the Greenland sea; And his mother was a shark, Who kept very dark In the Gulf of Caribbee. His uncles were a skate, And a little whitebait, And a flounder, and a chub beside; And a lovely pickerel, Both a beauty and belle, Had promised for to be his bride. You may think these things are strange, And they are a little change From the ordinary run, it’s true; But the weirdest thing (to me) Of all appeared to be, That HE was a kangaroo!’ Poem by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, 1890 [Available] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b83bc8e2d93a6651694704/54c6411c-74cf-42fa-bba1-78ced46f4abf/IMG_1244.jpeg Gallery Esmerelda - That tiny armadillo has too many legs! [Available] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b83bc8e2d93a6651694704/8666cd87-1a56-4607-ad8a-e00397569636/IMG_1243.jpeg Gallery Danny Boy - A pencil drawing of Michelangelo’s “Danny” [Sold]