As a young child, some of my favorite items to play with were paper and pencil. My Mom and Dad were both quite artistic, drawing and illustrating with pictures and designs. My mom recognized my love of drawing and gave me a small set of oil paints when I was 11 or 12. For my twelfth birthday, my Dad gave me a 35 mm camera and encouraged me in this field. He was a excellent amateur photographer and took many scenery photos. Pictures in magazines or my dad’s slides became some of my first subjects to paint. I would put slides into his photo enlarger and print out negatives on photo paper from them. I would then use those black and white negatives to learn how to shade, although I had to reverse in my mind and onto my canvas, the whites and blacks, using the slide to check colors as I painted. When I was in college I audited a landscape painting class my freshman year and a sculpture class my senior year. Other than that, I studied pictures in books, with particular interest in the Dutch masters. Once our two girls were in college, joined two art galleries and I began to paint in earnest. At this point in time, I have over 400 paintings not only in the US and Canada but in homes as far away as Japan and Israel. At present I enjoy using thin oil paints which gives the appearance of watercolors. I often paint from photos I have taken or from my imagination. Sometimes I think of a title of a painting first then illustrate it with a painting. This was the way I painted the various ‘Play on Names’ paintings which I consider more like illustrations.
August 26, 2018
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