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,...

Memory Failure

by | Mar 14, 2009 | random stuff

I thought I had a pic of that butterfly wallpaper on my bedroom wall, but can’t find the photo of it, instead, I found this photo of me in that big bedroom with the old wall paper, at least you can see what a big wall it was! The big view out the window was of...

Butterfly Wallpaper

by | Mar 4, 2009 | history, random stuff

This is the wallpaper I picked out for my bedroom when I was a teen-ager while I was living in that big house upon the hill in Pomona, CA. Later in life I realize that a lot of stuff that I have been fond of has been this particular style, that is, things outlined in...

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...