The Challenge for December is Enchanted (ing) / Enchanté (ment)

By Susan Irving I have two for vice.  None for virtue, (sadly!)

The After Dinner Cigarette depicts a female vampire smoking a cigarette.  What exactly did she have for dinner, I wonder?

 Who Do the Voodoo? is all about revenge. Better to draw it than to do it, I think!

By Yvonne Callaway. My friend, Terry, is a devilish character, so my portrait of him reflected that.

His friend, Denis, was generally accepted as being more angelic, ergo . . .

As a sign of friendship, each owns the other’s portrait – now that’s virtuous!

By Robin Patterson Vice or virtue?I teach art. So I have a LOT of supplies.

And I cannot resist something new to try!

A new paper…a new marker… 

And I am a collector of interesting things to draw and paint. I have boxes of them to refresh my studio walls.

Vice or virtue?

By Laura Peck

Le vice et la vertu

La guerre, un pays envahi, des personnages cruels et d’autres magnifiques.

La survie ou la domination? 

A chacun ses outils, ses croyances, ses actions.

2024? 

Non. Enfin, ça pourrait ! Ça me rend malade. 

‘Le vice et la vertu’ est un film remarquable de 1963 par Roger Vadim.

I am now questioning my stamps. 
Where is the vice? Where is the virtue?

Who’s hiding behind the mask?

Who needs a tree to see the gifts? 

Vice and virtue dance together

In plain sight. 

By Victoria Stevenson This is my submission for the prompt. It’s Vice. It’s not that great but I thought it might be a good doodle to represent the vice category.

By Jerry Boroff Both of my parents smoked cigarettes, outside as well as inside the home. I myself tried it a number of times to be in with the crowd but stopped before my kids came along. Their mother, my ex-wife, never smoked yet our two sons became casual smokers as teenagers and into adulthood.

My uncle Jack Cohen, my mother’s oldest brother, was the first Jew admitted to McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, in the early 1920’s. And that year, McGill instituted a quota for Jewish applicants; namely one person per year.

We’ve come a long way, two steps forward and one step back and then some. But just as ocean waves sweep up along a sandy coastline, the swirling salt water eventually makes its way back again into the watery mix.

What has that got to do with virtue or vice? It seems to me that how you look at something can change quickly from positive to negative and back–and forth–again. Or to put it another way, why stop a Slinky from snaking its way down a perpetual staircase?

 Intervention is basically a subjective force and how we view anything depends on the whim of the collective crowd.

By Lynne Ayers Call out the Vice Squad, Boulevard de Clichy, Montmarte,Paris … 

By Isabelle Utovac

Les noms de vertu et vice : l’impératrice des âmes

La pensée de Dieu me séduit
ma tour de siège, Il la détruit
puis
Il m’offre Son corps
je deviens Son serment
Sa promesse, Sa mort
Sa vie

The names of virtue and vice: empress of souls

The mind of God seduces me
My siege tower, he destroys it
then
He offers me His body
I become his oath,
His promise, His death,
His life