A fine artist I am not. In 1987, I was teaching high school
math in Globe, Arizona when a copper miner’s wife led me through one
really bad oil painting of a desert canyon. That’s my formal training. I like
to paint subjects that catch your attention but I’m not too particular. I’ll
paint scenery, people, city streets, empty rooms. Not everything is going to
appeal to everyone. I try never to spend more than 5 or 6 hours in
total, spread over 6 or 8 sittings. Any more than that and they start to look
too busy and get too expensive. The frames are mostly rough cut pieces of barn
wood or oak flooring. I like to keep it simple. Make something of
reasonable quality that you can afford to take home with you.
