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Paintings and Drawings Done as a Child

This is the first painting I sold.  I did this painting when I was seven years old.   I sold it to my teacher  so I could buy more oil paints.  My teacher said that she would keep that painting forever because she thought I would become famous some day.  After I retired I received a call from the family of the teacher that bought my first painting.  I had lost touch of her when I was a kid.  She had passed away.  She talked a lot about me to her family throughout the years about that painting and the family found me to tell me that she still had the painting and wanted me to...

Seton Hill College

A Nun at Sunday school saw my paintings when I was about 14 years old.  She wanted to show a Nun that taught art and painting at Seton Hill College.  Her name was Sister Fedez.  My Sunday school Nun showed Sister Fedez my work and she wanted to meet me.  I met with her and she liked me and my work and told me I had alot of potential and talent and she wanted to give me private lessons.  I said I would and she gave me private lessens for quite some time.  I learned alot from her and I truly appreciate her thoughtfulness and kindness to do that for me.   Here is a picture of me at Seton...

Kaufmann’s

I worked at Kaufmann’s starting in 1959.  I did ads for the newspaper.  They did not use photos as they do now for the ads.  Everything was hand drawn back then. And of course everything was all black and white. They would be done as pen and ink drawings or “wash” paintings.  Wash paintings are ink and some water.  The two pictures are wash drawings.  They would give me the actual merchandise and put it on my desk to draw.  So much different then the way things are more easily done...

Photo Retouching Before Photoshop!

          I self taught myself to do photo retouching.  This is way before photoshop on the computer.  Of course everything was done by hand.  I would mask off the area that I wanted to leave as is, and airbrushed the background in, such as the photo show with the boy holding the fish.  See that the background is different.  My freind gave me a picture of his mom.  That is the photo of the woman with the hat.  I airbrushed the background out and fixed the sractes and marks that were on the photo.  Sometimes I would use aa Q-tip and some ink to fix some...

Last Supper Painting on Rice?

I first tried using water color to paint the rice, but it melted the rice.  So I used oil paints.  It was a much better medium to use.  I used a one hair brush and a magnifying glass.  I took this picture with a microscope that had a camera on it.

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