Alice Gibson of Morgan City, LA art teacher

by | May 23, 2009 | history

One teacher that I forgot about was Alice Gibson who gave me one of the toughest lessons I ever had before I found the teacher I stayed with for 5 years, Dotty Billiu. For this particular lesson I was given a picture out of a book to copy, it was a black and white...

Moved to Louisiana

by | May 16, 2009 | history

We moved from southern California to southern Louisiana in 1972 because my husband got a job as a deep sea diver in LA. What a different life it was living in the swamps, and the bayou country. He bought me a nice easel for my birthday and said to get whatever else I...

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...

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...

Ink outline

by | Apr 6, 2009 | history

One more sample of my style is shown in this painting that was a result of going to a new art class when I lived in Morgan City, LA. The teacher was so busy with his other students and never got around to me, so I spent my time doing what I saw in the room, the trash...