more of the old stuff
I have had this little watercolor of the lobster since high school (it is almost 50 yrs. old!), and it even has my maiden name on it! Another sample of what I was attracted to for art style, [but was not aware of it then] the ink line on loose watercolor. It was...The Quilt Pieces
When I was a teen-ager I did a lot of sewing, therefore I had a lot of scraps of fabric to use in quilts. My granny would teach me how to sew pieces together to create a design and she would do the quilting. I have about 4 of those quilts from my granny and two of...Memory Failure
I thought I had a pic of that butterfly wallpaper on my bedroom wall, but can’t find the photo of it, instead, I found this photo of me in that big bedroom with the old wall paper, at least you can see what a big wall it was! The big view out the window was of...Butterfly Wallpaper
This is the wallpaper I picked out for my bedroom when I was a teen-ager while I was living in that big house upon the hill in Pomona, CA. Later in life I realize that a lot of stuff that I have been fond of has been this particular style, that is, things outlined in...Those little books.
Another incident that I remember while I lived in that big house on the hill was how fond I was of this little box of books that were only 2 x 3 inches big, and incased in a neat little holder for the 10 of them. I would read them at nap time and loved to hear the...That precious brush!
One of the things that I remember when I lived in that house upon the hill was that my daddy would weekly make some big signs for his produce business, specials of the week were made on big sheets of butcher paper and with this big brush that had me totally impressed...My First Palette
This is like the pan watercolor palette I had when I lived in that big house upon the hill. I can remember sitting on the floor of our back porch copying pictures from my story books. Later in my blog stories I will tell you how I got a more professional palette...show box
When my brother was 12 and I was 10, we invented a show piece to share with the neighborhood kids. We took a box about the size of ones that apples come in and we put a rod through each end of it and it would scroll the scenes we had on paper to show the story we...early drawing
While I lived in the big house on the hill my family had horses on the property. In this image attached here, this drawing was on the back of an old letter in 1949. It shows my Dad’s horse, Smoky, and my brother’s horse, Babe. I would rather draw horses...Recent Interview
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