Draw with no Lines

by | Sep 1, 2009 | history

One of the lessons I had in art school was to look at a still life set up and use graphite pencil and draw no lines. I thought my teacher was kidding! I had always drawn with lines! I really had a struggle with this task because it was a matter of looking at the...

St. Pierre Hotel of Wales, England

by | Aug 24, 2009 | random stuff

A diver friend of my husband’s sent us a picture of the St. Pierre Hotel in Wales England. If our memory is correct, we believe his name was Jack Byers and he thought it was cool that he found a hotel that had our name origin. (Sampier originated from St....

I’m in the Newspaper!

by | Aug 19, 2009 | random stuff

Morgan City Bank was so kind to put this article in the newspaper for me. It shows one of my swamp paintings and one with the Carrilon Bell Tower. This was a long time ago, and it is fun to look back on how things were.

Small Town Privilege

by | Aug 17, 2009 | random stuff

There wasn’t a lot of competition in Morgan City, LA for artists. I was so privileged to put on art shows at one of the local banks with my name on their sign. At my last show there, I sold 22 paintings in 2 weeks time. Wow! The bank was  nice enough to...

Charles N. Sharpe Painting

by | Aug 15, 2009 | random stuff

I was asked to do a painting for Charles N. Sharpe, the president of the life insurance company my husband worked for in the late 70’s. Charlie said to paint whatever you want and wait for the inspiration to come when you know what he would want. It took me a...