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This is a digitaly enhanced original photograph of Howard Finster's (the late great folk artist) Cadillac still sitting in his garage in Paradise Gardens in Georgia. Howard is long gone now but his presence hovers.

Howard was in his back yard repair shop, fixing a bicycle, when he looked at a paint smudge on his finger and had a vision of a human face. The voice of God commanded Howard to "paint sacred art," and for the next quarter-century he did just that.

Howard transformed his yard into what he called Paradise Garden, four acres of quirky buildings, junk-studded pathways, and sculptures made from other people's trash. He dated and numbered every one of his 48,000+ artworks, usually colorful plywood cutouts covered with busy designs and Bible verses in tractor enamel paint. Howard was known for painting 2-D Coke bottles and angels, spaceships and smiling clouds. Caps and hats in his artwork often had human faces, like Howard's finger.
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Rebecca Korpita is an artist living on the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast. Her artwork and illustrations reside in collections worldwide, appears on book covers, in magazines and are licensed on home goods and accessories. She is inspired by the coastal area in which she lives - the beach, the people, the lifestyle, the culture, old things and quirky things. Living near New Orleans, she loves the small colorful shotgun houses and captures them whenever she visits. Key West and all things tropical as well as women and their friendships and dogs and cats and their relationships with the people they own are some of her subjects. As well as painting in traditional media, Rebecca does digital art from her original photography using...