This is the preliminary version of my painting, Good Morning, Hello! It did better than his big brother! Morning Hello! was completed May 4, 1988. The painting’s first show was “The Kentucky Watercolor Society’s 11th Annual National Exhibition”...
My hometown is Sedalia, Missouri, which is the historic location of the Missouri State Fair. My Sedalia ancestry family lived just blocks from the fairgrounds. I rode my bicycle there often. During a summer visit to my parents, we made our usual trip to visit the...
I suppose all these stories will mean something eventually, as I am the only one who knows ‘the story’. Again, I was in a funk with the early Oklahoma winter of 1987 and turned to my spring flowers. One of my favorite places for compositions was...
My Summer Serenade painting was from my inventory of photographs from Tlaquepaque. The scene is from the side of the chapel. This painting is on a ‘half sheet’ at 15.0″ h x 22.0″ w of d’Arches 140 lb cold pressed paper. I used Winsor...
During the years around 1981, I was teaching local classes for the Desert Botanical Gardens and the City of Phoenix. I was experimenting with rice paper painting. I found that mounting the rice paper with white glue to illustration board to stabilize it for painting...
Every child’s wish is to go to Disney Land in California. It was my wish too, but very delayed. My Sedalia, Missouri family lived in the Central Midwest, which made Disneyland too far west for us to drive on two lane roads. I watched every single Mickey Mouse Club...
