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From Chip Boles:

For this year's Egg, I chose to show one of my favorite Cryptozoological creatures - the Dragon - not only because they are always fun to draw, but because the Nashville Children's Theatre has held them so close as mascot for it's many years. I'd like to think Scot would enjoy this year's Egg. 

<3 Scot forever.

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Chip Boles is an American Illustrator, muralist, and fine artist based in Nashville TN, Tennessee. His story, however, begins in America's Pacific Northwest, where he was born and lived with his biological family - a band of Sasquatch (or Bigfoot) - until the age of four. He lived there, deep in the lush forest, free and at one with the wilderness (and his fleas) until one day when he found a comic book left by some campers. After pouring over its contents for months, the Bigfoot elder silverbacks finally made the difficult decision to send him away, saying his destiny lay in the human world of drawings and words. Despite his smell and horrifying appearance, he was taken in by a very pleasant couple by the name of Boles, who together taught him to read and occasionally bathe. They shaved him daily and encouraged his drawing. The couple called him "Chip" after the Bigfoot word for "son."

Since then, Chip has gone on to become the first Sasquatch-American to receive his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing, as well as his Master of Fine Arts in Illustration. Today, through his drawings, paintings, and murals, Chip continues to break barriers and peacefully fight for Sasquatch acceptance in contemporary society. Through telling stories about Bigfeet and other so-called "legendary" or "mythological" creatures, he hopes to bring attention to Cryptozoological Issues throughout the world. From 2007-2011, Chip lived in Himeji, Japan where he both taught English and worked to connect with Japan's own cryptozoological community of "hidden animals." In this way, he kepts one huge, hairy foot in the human world, and the other in the mysterious, often misunderstood world of the Japanese "yokai," in an effort to bring the two together in mutual acceptance and greater harmony. He illustrated, designed, and co-edited the Yokai Character Collection, receiving praise in the New York Times (2015). 

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