ROOM TO LET ROOM TO LET, SCENE TWO These two watercolors represent two ways to approach the same composition. The first painting was a half sheet of 300 lb. Arches watercolor paper, cold pressed. I chose a very limited palette of Holbein turquoise blue and...
After Dr. and Mrs. Ben E. Klein were discharged from the Navy after WWII, they moved back to his home town, Sedalia, Missouri to establish his dental practice. Their first home was in his mother’s apartment rental building, the front apartment of 614 1/2 South...
There was a point in my life where I only had a Kodak Instamatic camera to use. I was thrilled, since it was my next camera after my Kodak Brownie, which was broken. I did not care if the prints were small, and somewhat out of focus. Nevertheless, I used those photos...
This painting is a study in duality. The demise of mom and pop businesses and the common man. This painting takes place in Kaiser’s Ice Cream Store in September of 1986. When we lived in Edmond, Oklahoma from 1985-1987 with Sonic Corporate, we took many rides...
Eddie’s Drive In This story really is not about the painting, but the wonderful legacy a family gave to Sedalia’s identity. Way back in the ‘Great Depression,’ not unlike today’s ‘Modern Depression,’ families had been working...
My husband and I moved our two children to Edmond, Oklahoma, so that Steve would become a corporate Sonic Restaurant, Inc. person to help guide the company. During his tenure in Oklahoma, the husband went to work and the children went to school. This afforded me...
