David Millard Copy

When a person is eager to learn all they can about watercolor and art and even copies from paintings in a book, it is a privilege. One thing to be sure to do when you copy is to put the name of the original artist along with your own name. About 10 years after I did...

Kitchen Corner

In the early 1970’s we were new in town, (Morgan City. LA), in a new place, and the kids were in school and I was eager to get some painting done. All I had was the corner of my small kitchen with a window of southern light. In this photo, taken by the local...

Seeing the Color of Light

My most valuable lessons where by Henry Hensche who came to the south to teach at the art school I was attending. Here I am with Henry critiquing my work. I was taught how to see the color of light, and you would think it was easy by just painting simple colored...

Other Colors

I knew how colorful California was, but when I moved to the swamp land I thought it was the ugliest part of the whole United States!  What I found out is that I could use other colors than the actual drab, dull environment. Of course, after studying with Henry...

Absolute Originals

One night I was at my kitchen sink, doing the dishes, watching the evening sky and taking note on how the sky was so beautiful.  The next morning I was at my painting table putting down that sky in watercolors, then when it was dry, I made up a typical swamp scene...

The Old Studebaker Truck

When my husband was a kid, he used to play on this old truck in Imperial Valley, a desert area of southern California. I thought this would be a good subject for a painting so I did a watercolor of it, and it was accepted in a national exhibition in Houston TX in...