Mirror, mirror

 

 Today I'm joining Elle from Empire of the Cat, our host this month at Art Journal Journey.  As many of you probably know, her theme is Fairytales, Folklore, and Fables - Tell Me A Story.  Although I have missed much of this month due to jury duty, I hope to catch up soon.

This incredibly simple spread took three days to create.

While the green paint was drying, I glued silver foil inside the frame.  I didn't realize as I was adhering the foil to the frame, I was getting fingernail marks on the foil.

For the other side, I hand wrote the words of the poem using a gel pen that matched the color of the frame.

Once the green paint was dry, I dry brushed the gold fluid acrylic paint that I mixed with mica powder over the green paint.  After that was dry, I adhered the frame to the right side of the spread and wrote the poem on the other side of the spread.  For those who need a translation or can't read my handwriting:

Mirror, mirror 

on the wall.

who's the fairest

of them all?

Bleubeard and I are delighted you joined us today, and hope to see you at Art Journal Journey with your own take on Fairytales, Folklore, & Fables - Tell Me A Story.

 

Now to explain about the trial.  Most trials you see on scripted TV shows deal with criminal cases.  These can include theft, rape, incest, kidnapping, and murder.  There is always a defendant, or the person accused of doing the dirty deed and the prosecution, usually represented by lawyers from the city or the state in which the crime was committed.  Twelve jurors must agree to either guilty or not guilty.

 

Civil cases are much different.   They are cases that do not involve a felony.  In a civil trial, there is a plaintiff and a defendant.  The plaintiff brings the case to the court and the defendant must defend his or her actions.  This is mostly in the form of money.  In a civil trial, no one goes to jail if the defendant loses.  There can be cases in which the judge is the only one listening to the evidence and making a ruling, or there can be a jury trial where either six or 12 jurors listen to the evidence.  

 

When there is a civil jury trial, the judge instructs what law or laws must be observed and the jury I was on had to decide if the evidence that had been presented met these requirements.  We could only deal with evidence we heard in court. We then were instructed to present a verdict of liable or not liable on the plaintiff's claims.  In this case, we the jury were asked to show the defendant to be guilty or not guilty beyond a preponderance of evidence, unlike a criminal case which requires the defendant to be guilty or not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

 

This case involved a man who may or may not have left his cattle gate open and his cows got onto a main highway.  Two vehicles were totaled and there were injuries to the people in the vehicles.  The cows were killed as a result and the owner of the cattle was suing the owners of the vehicles for killing his cattle.

 

Want to know what we the jury decided and what to award the owner of the cows?  Come back for T Tuesday and find out.