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The Dark Sire Magazine , Awards Special Edition Published by BSC Publishing Group Distributed from the United States
Cover art by Dena Simard Copyright © 2020
Dena Simard is a 57-year-old accountant who yearns to make art . She began painting in 2019 and chose watercolors because she wanted to challenge herself – and heard watercolor was the hardest . She then discovered alcohol inks in 2020 and started dabbling in that . Dena has sold a few watercolor paintings to friends who have requested pet portraits . Other than that , she creates art to settle the right side of her brain , which , besides painting , includes jewelry making and scrapbooking . The piece presented here is alcohol inks on Yupo paper , called
“ Nothing to Smile About .”