Bruce McIntyre Drawing Lessons

by | May 13, 2009 | history

When my kids were little I was an Avon lady.  I didn’t even have a car to deliver the products in, so I would put my kids in a wagon  and we would go door to door delivering in our neighborhood. One of my customers always had something in art to show me of...

High School Art

by | May 2, 2009 | history

I had two years of high school art class.  It was fun to use all the supplies provided for art classes in those years.  The most popular art was non-objective art or abstract art.  One of my teachers realized how serious I was and very passionate about my...

My Dad’s Painting

by | Apr 24, 2009 | random stuff

When my dad was a young man he would use table cloth, sometimes called oil table cloth, and paint on the back side of that cloth which had a weave somewhat like a canvas.  He was not very good with perspective, but could sure do the landscape nicely.  He would go...

That Mural

by | Apr 18, 2009 | history, random stuff

When I was a little kid I loved that mural in the church baptistery in back of the choir area. I would just drool over it and dream of being able to paint something that beautiful, such a simple landscape from this black and white photo taken in the 1950’s. I...

A Surprise Image

by | Apr 10, 2009 | random stuff

Back in the 80’s while I was attending art school, I had this particular class lesson where I had a 16 x 20 inch masonite board that was precoated with gesso, dried, then I covered it with a mixture of blue and brown oil paint which looked like a dark navy blue,...