Those little books.

by | Mar 1, 2009 | random stuff

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!

by | Feb 21, 2009 | history

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

by | Feb 12, 2009 | history

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

by | Feb 6, 2009 | history

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

by | Jan 27, 2009 | history

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...