Artist embarks upon year-long Betty White-themed art project
The ancient Greeks drew inspiration from nine Muses in total, but resourceful artist Mike Denison seemingly needs only four: the quartet of mutually supportive and sassy Florida seniors on TV’s The Golden Girls. (Okay, full disclosure: he also has a thing for Chris Hardwick.) Denison previously ignited the collective imagination of the Internet in 2014 with his whimsical Bea A Day project, which entailed posting new drawings of Golden star Bea Arthur each day for an entire year. And now comes word of Bea A Day’s logical, perhaps sunnier successor: Betty A Day, a daily artistic tribute to Arthur’s longtime costar, Betty White. This project, along with Denison’s other creative pursuits, can be followed at the artist’s personal Tumblr, where one will also find a link to Denison’s Etsy store, through which he sells both prints of his work and originals. For those interested, Denison says he also takes commissions. Thus far, Betty A Day has been, like Bea A Day before it, predictably Golden Girls-centric. Take, for example, the puckish “Rose Before Hoes,”which makes a punning contrast between Betty White’s naive Rose Nylund and Rue McClanahan’s more worldly Blanche Devereaux.