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I have always loved beetles and this is my second favorite the giraffe beetle. It is a real beetle if you can believe it. I like to humanize my insects and this one is wearing a yellow tie. I also like to set many of my paintings in rooms and it just seemed a good idea to have him balancing on a ball.

Paxton was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1970. At the age of 4 his parents moved back to their hometown of Athens, Alabama where they built a house on Elk River outside of town. Paxton spent most of his childhood there roaming freely in the surrounding woods. From a very young age Paxton showed signs of an active imagination and a growing creative ability. This was seen in his regular acts of sculpting his food into art forms at the dinner table and his miniature creations of boats and cities down to the last detail, ready for their small inhabitants. With his love for animals and nature, Paxton's first thoughts were of becoming a wildlife artist, but there was also his overflowing imagination and vivid dreams that seemed to put a...