‘Neath Texas Stars, Yetive H. Dean

by | Mar 21, 2010 | history

I can remember when I was young and living in that big house upon the hill in Pomona, CA.  My pastor’s wife, Naomi Hill had recommended a book to me. It was called ‘Neath Texas Stars, a romance type of book, of which I am not a fan of such books, but this...

May Co. to Macy’s

by | Mar 17, 2010 | history

I had just taken my daughter to her class at San Diego State and then went to the mall in Mission Valley, but May Co. wasn’t open yet. I noticed a little old lady waiting on the bench by the store and when I took a closer look at her while I was waiting in my...

Campo Rd. Spring Va. CA view

by | Mar 12, 2010 | history

The first five years we were back in California we attended Faith Chapel in Spring Valley, and they had this darling little chapel down on the lower part of the property and up above that area was this little yellow house that I selected to do a painting of.  The day...

Gloxinia

by | Feb 10, 2010 | history

A long time ago, someone gave me this beautiful gloxinia plant and I decided to do a painting of it. I set it out on the patio in good lighting and used a painting knife to paint it onto a 16 x 20 inch masonite board. I thought this was a very simple painting to do...

Mailbox Cluster on Mt. Helix

by | Feb 6, 2010 | history

This seems to happen to me a lot of times… I’ll see something that I want to paint, and then it vanishes and isn’t there anymore. I took a picture of these mail boxes when I used to live in the Mt. Helix area. When I actually got ready to make a...

Marie Wordell Watercolor Class

by | Feb 2, 2010 | history

Way back in the 1980’s I took a class from Marie Wordell and she had a live model for us to do one day. The model was wearing a very colorful costume. It was a Spanish costume, so you can imagine how many colors it had and a colorful head scarf besides. Oh no! I...