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johnpaulthornton β Portrait of Jaycee Lee Dugard
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Photo: Artist John Paul Thornton holds his painting of missing child Jaycee Lee Dugard.I painted this eighteen years ago in 1991, the week Jaycee was abducted. Thousands carried her painting in public exhibitions of hope and support.
Here is the link to my recent television interview on CBS news about the missing children "Paintings Of Hope" project: [link]
Love to her and her family.
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I just got a copy too! She is an amazing young woman.
Shame on the many law professionals who were too lazy to just check out her abductor's back yard for eighteen years...Phil's parole officers visted his property over sixty times and NEVER had the professional integrity to even look around. Even with neighbors reporting children in the backyard!
In the end, goodness and light overcame evil and sloth.
Much love to her and her family.
John Paul
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wow this is amazing.its such a touching story of hope using art in this way.i am so amazed at your talent.what form of painting do u do?is that acrylic oil or digital pieces?
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The missing children paintings are all done in oil.
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Dude, what you're doing is... indescribable. Maybe you think that what you're doing is small, but it's too big for me to even try and describe how HUGE it is...
God bless... and never stop painting...
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I want to thank you for writing this.
John Paul
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This is really great stuff you're doing. it's good to know she's okay now and back with her true family.
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In a world here it is so easy to be overwhelmed by events and feel one single voice will make no difference. You work, art and example has shown what a profound difference one committed person can make. Thank you for inspiring us and for your art. I cant think of anyone more deserving.
Paul
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Wow that's so cool of you to be doing that for another family, i hope one day i can be as much of help in something as you have been!
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You do a very important job here, giving hope.
You also do it very well.
Thankyou for sharing these wonderful portraits with us.
btw, I like your haircut.
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thank you for finding such an original way of keeping these kids alive in the memory of those who knew them and in the attention of the media. may your work be truelly fruitful!
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Mara, I am grateful for your comment.
John Paul
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thank you, John! Keep doing your inspiring work!
mara
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your amazing and wow i like what you do the world needs more people like you,
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Absolutely amazing... and to think I had no idea of this feat until now.
I heard about the story and thought of how horrible it must've been for her... to know someone like you unknowingly watched out for her with your stunning portrait and ultimately helped recover her is touching. :3
Keep up your great work, John!
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I did not recover her. But the painting kept her memory alive across the country.
it was just a candle of hope.
Thank you,
John Paul
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It is so refreshing, to see people who are willing to still do good things in this world. You cut on the news, and everything is always so negative. War, famines, riots, natural distasters..thank you for being a light in the dark.
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This is a wonderful painting. I love that you do this. BRAVO!!! ^_^ I am so happy that she still alive and was found. I really did cry when I heard that she just walked into a police station and told them that it was her. I hope that the man is sent to prison for life... Again, great job and I hope to see more!!! ^_^
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This is very touching, I got goosebumps - woow, out of all the missing children - 1991.
Beautiful.
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Very inspiring and talented. Great job. You deserved to receive the Deviousness Award.
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It looks like you did it with crayons from this distance. Itβs not as chaotic as your new ones, itβs more uniform and you can actually tell the fine details of the person, instead of having your viewers create the face for themselves.
Btw, you need a hair cut....
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Long hair is back, you know.
I go to a grocery store and strange ladies run their hands through it while we are waiting in line. Their eyes are glazed over and they coo to me about the "fullness" and "thickness", and I am like, "uh, hello..."
My head was shaved for awhile and that seemed to scare the hell out of people.
Love, JP
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I had the same thing happen in highschool, I had all the girls there at awe saying the same thing, though I never had them run their fingers through it.
Trust me on this, I had the long hair to. I love it short now, (mainly because it doesnt take 3 hours to wash.)
And besides, you an artist! You're supposed to be setting the style, not following the crowd!
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I am under the illusion that I am setting a future trend in front of all the short-haired folk who will be caught off guard...
Anyway, I decided that when I do cut it, I will donate it to "locks of Love," the organization that creates wigs of real hair for kids with cancer. So I'm growing it a bit longer still!
Maybe I will shave it all when I do.... We'll see...
(It does take three freakin hours to wash, though, you are right.)
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Painting missing children AND donating hair!
God, if you were a scientist you would have cured cancer, ended world hunger and stopped world war three via time machine all in one night. 
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Had she contacted you or anything?
It would be nice if she did.
Congrats on the Deviousness Award!
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Renz,
Thank you so very much! perhaps one day ...
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increible, simplemente increible, sigue asi que inspiras a un monton de personas con tu gran y noble trabajo
saludos desde PerΓΊ
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I would like to say thank you. Thank you for using your fantastic talent to bring light to such a horrible thing. Child abductions are horrible - for a fellow student or a parent. Life seems to stop when a child has gone missing - and by doing these portraits, you are helping beyond belief. The internet is a powerful thing - and to post these portraits up here, well, it's spreading the news even faster. Millions of people are going on the internet, on this site every day. It warms my heart to see someone who cares. I would like to congratulate you on starting such an awesome project.
I will be watching you. Watching these portraits that you paint in hopes that I can help someday. I can help bring a child home and to help them be reconnected to a warm and loving family. The family that most of us are fortunate to have.
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Hope wins over irony .
Also, it wins over fear.
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Irony? Where did that come from?
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I guess I have a thing about irony.
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what inspired you to start painting missing children? do you know a child personally that went missing, or do you have a child of your own that went missing? im not trying to be rude i hope you dont think that, im just curiouse
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Hello,
You are not coming off as rude at all!
Thank you for asking. A ten-year-old student of mine was abducted when I was teaching art at a school in Los Angeles.It got me thinking about the issue of missing children, and also about questions of "belonging" and exploring who is worthy of being immortalized in a portrait.
I also had an art instructor in college who told me portraiture was incapable of being effective as an art form. I was moved by all of these inspirations.
John Paul
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In 1991, a little flier appeared in my mailbox. It featured Jaycee Lee Dugard, who had just been abducted a week before.
I had started a series painting random photos of missing children , and she was the fifth such portrait I attempted.(Although on my dA site, she is identified as "Missing Child Portrait 50")
I painted here because I felt that a painting was a civil way to honor her.
John Paul
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Thank you.
JP
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You're welcome.
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you look young here my friend, i might have mistaken you for paul mccartney of the beatles
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I change my appearance every few weeks to keep it fresh.
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I'd give that a try, but that must be costy though =3
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Unbelievable story! That ultimate match of talent and passion, I am very inspired. Your paintings are just excellent!!
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Wow, Thank you, Brian.
John paul
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Lovely to see the interview, and seeing you in 'the flesh' so to speak. It is inspiring to see an artist using his talent for such a cause.
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