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Blue Dog
Title: Blue Dog
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 400 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Blue Dog
Like old folklore, the Blue Dog has changed slightly through the years. Its roots, however, lay in the Cajun tale of the loup-garou, an eerie werewolf-like creature.
In 1984, Rodrigue — then a modestly successful artist — was asked to illustrate a book of Cajun ghost stories. His inspiration came from his mother, Marie.
"She used to tell me as a boy 'If you're not good today, the loup-garou is going to eat you tonight."
Looking for a model for the mythical figure, Rodrigue used a photo of …showed first 85 words of 400 total…
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"People respond to the art in the books," he says. "The words only reinforce my ideas, concepts and feelings about why I continue to paint."
Each of the artist's galleries (he opened a second in 1990 in Carmel, Calif.) displays about 30 original paintings. But Rodrigue doesn't like to sell more than 10 a month.
"We're in a transitional time now, because we're selling too many," he says. "I've been raising prices, to stop the flow of paintings. But that's not helping either."
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