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Ann Arbor artist paints portrait of Gov. Snyder using lead-based paint
The governor looks pale. Worried. Sickly, even.
Michael Dykehouse presented Rick Snyder that way because that’s how he sees him, mired in the toxic quicksand of the Flint water crisis.
Dykehouse is low-key by nature, not one to shout at Snyder on the streets of their shared home town of Ann Arbor or even to lift a picket sign. Instead, he made his point with a portrait ...
Painted with lead.
“I didn’t want to bang people over the head with it,” says Dykehouse, 41. But he has painted politicians before, and the lead-infused Cremnitz White from Old Holland Classic Oil Colours is “part of my vocabulary as an artist.”
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