Walter Foster book/Claretta White
In some of my early art I would use art books to learn how to paint something different and it was okay to copy from the book. So I chose to paint in a thin manner, making the paint kind of transparent (the pumpkin). The book I used was from Claretta White and really...The Rag Dolls
I was given an assignment in art school to do a painting at home using a gessoed board, brown paint and a still-life set-up. I chose the rag dolls, sat them on a wooden box that Grandpa Alec made and got busy getting the rags dolls onto the wet paint applied to the...Stanrite Aluminum Studio Easel
It was a big change in my life when we moved to Louisiana where my husband Jack had a new job as a deep sea diver. The money was good, and my husband knew that I wanted to take art lessons and so he bought me an easel for my birthday and said to have at it!  And...Draw with no Lines
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...Window Theme
A window theme was required for a certain art competition that I entered in Morgan City, LA in 1982. I had this little house in mind for the painting and had my husband cut the mat for it as if it was the window panes over this painting. It took him half a day to get...Recent Interview
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