"LINCOLN TOILETS"

This is the No. 120TH painting in my 365/2010 series
Title: "LINCOLN TOILETS"
Size: 8X10 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140ln. DeArches cold press paper.
Many of you will have no idea what this is, but my Lincoln friends will readily identify with it.
This is the type toilet that used growing up there in the village. It was on the back porch of the house and literally in a "Water Closet" The closet was typically about 3 feet by 6 feet with just enough room to get inside close the door and sit on the pot. There was a reserve tank attached to the pipe in the back and when you put the lid down and sat on it the water would begin to fill up the tank and run down the inside of the bowl and when you got up it would flush. Most of the time there were little leaks and spraying going on and you most all the time got a wet bottom. By the time the mill houses were torn down most of these had been replaces by "MODERN" potties, but this one remained in the Adcock house at the end of Bennett St. It was rescued by Dan Welden, who took a day off work to cut it away from it home and take it to his house at the other end of Bennett St. It was standing in his living room when i saw it last. Don't know what he ever did with it.
I know my Lincoln friends will love it.
I sure hope everyone else likes it.
I do hope you like what I do.
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Thanks for looking.

"HO HO THE CLOWN"

This is the No. 120TH. painting in my 365/2010 series
Title: "HO HO THE CLOWN"
Size: 9X12 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 100%Germany made paper.
Ho Ho was born ED BIRCHALL, July 16, 1923 in Colchester
Conn. and dies July 3, 1988 in Oklahoma City. Always an entertainer, he was hired by KOCO-TV in the 60's as an entertainer doing all kinds of entertaining for the studio 6 days a week.He also entertained as a freelance clown doing parties, convertions etc.
Ho Ho was with KOCO-TV almost 30 years. During that times at least 4 shows showcasing his clowning talents were featured. "LUNCH WITH HO HO", "HO HO SHOWBOAT", GOOD MORNING HO HO", AND HO HO SHOWPLACE".
Ho Ho was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in March, 2010.

"ANOTHER VIEW OF AN ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI TRAIN STOP"

This is the No. 119 painting in my 365/2010 series
Title: "ANOTHER VIEW OF AN ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI TRAIN STOP"
Size" 7 1/2 X 9 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches cold press paper.
This is a view looking south down the tracks of the Aberdeen train depot or weigh station as I think they were called. There are at least 4 of these around Aberdeen. This one is at the bottom of the hill in East Aberdeen.
I do hope you like what I do.
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"HOOTIE OWL"

This is the No.118 painting in my 365/2010 series
Title; "HOOTIE OWL"
Size: 22X30 inches.
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches cold press paper.
This is another Demo painting, painted in about 30-40 minutes in front of an audience.
All you bird people out there don't get upset about this species or type owl. I'm not an Audubon so don't be looking for a KIND of owl. It's just arni's owl. I made up the feather pattern, and the other anatomy of the creature. My first graders enjoyed watching me paint it though. I do hope you enjoy it as well as all the things that I do.
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"RT. 66 WIDE-A-WAKE CAFE, EDMOND, OK."

This is the No. 117TH. painting in my 365/2010 series.

Title: "RT. 66 WIDE-A-WAKE CAFE, EDMOND, OK"

Size: 7 1/2 X9 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches 100% rag paper, cold press.

In 1976 I moved to Edmomd. sometime that summer I went by this place on Broadway street and stopped by to take a picture of it. That was on Monday. This is painted from that Polaroid shot. That same week, either Tuesday or Wednesday, a story came out about the place and said that it was going to be torn down. I went back that Friday to take some more shots of it and it WAS GONE. I've heard many stories about this place and don't know how many of them are true.
There was one story that at one time in the 30's, 40's that this was the only place on Route 66 that was opened all night from Tulsa to Amarillo. Then in the early 50's Lucille's opened in Hydro, Oklahoma.

I went in to eat, once when I first came to Edmond, but a roach ran across the headrest in my booth. I left and never went back. Sorry I missed that eating experience.

I do hope you like what I do.

Comments and/or remarks are really appreciated.

'OKLAHOMA LONGHORN"

This is the No. 116TH. painting in my 365/2010 series
Title: "OKLAHOMA LONGHORN"
Size: 22X30 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches 100% rag paper.
This is another demo painting done in about 30 mins. in front of an audience.
A couple of weeks ago my cousin Calvin Anderson and his wife Dorothy from Huntsville visited us on their way back fro Las Vegas. We were riding around just taking in Oklahoma and came upon this bunch of Longhorn cattle in the city limits of Edmond. Calvin had never seen a longhorn, So this one was painted with Calvin in mind.
I do hope you like what I do.
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There are 65 items subblimimally hidden in this painitng.

This is the No. 115Th painting in my 365/2010 series.

Title:"TYPICAL HUNTING SCENE? NOT!

Size: 18X28 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches 100% rag paper.

Look closely, this painting has about 65 different things hidden in it. This is one of my anniversary type paintings. This one was done for Mr. William R. Burke, 70Th birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL!!!!! I hope you like your painting. This painting sums up 70 years of Bill's amazing life. There are 5 dates hidden in this painting. from birthdays and wedding dates of Bill and his wife. there are about 35 names of children, grandchildren and very special people in Bill's life. Accomplishments of Bill's life are hidden by images representing certain aspects of his life. For instances If you look closely in the lower left corner you will see in the tall grass a faint image of a Blue Devil representing one of the many schools Bill has been associated with. See if you can find a ducks head ( not including the three that are flying as the main subjects of the picture. a book representing the teaching career. a blue ribbon for his best husband, father and grandpa status. a pencil for his authorship. a total of about 65 different things.

Bill and his favorite dog Thor are show in the grass on the lower right hand side of the piece.

There is an enlargement of the Blue Devil show in this post.

I do hope you like this piece, and I don't advertise these BUT you can get one done for any occasion.

I hope you like what I'm trying to do.

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"ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI UNIDENTIFIED HOUSE"

This is the No. 114 painting in my 365/2010 series
Title: "ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI UNIDENTIFIED HOUSE"
Size: 8X10 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb.DeArches cold press paper.
This is another painting done from the photos Miss. Peacock gave me back in the 1980's.
Large ionic columns on what seems to be brick or stone bases are at the front of the house and smaller ionic columns with their bases on what seems to be smaller slabs of concrete floors surrounding the entire sides and perhaps the back of the house. There is a large porch that surrounds the house with a balcony for the entire 2ND floor on the front and both sides of the house. AS elaborate banisters rail goes completely around the house and at the top of the front entrance. It looks like a captains walk is on top of the house, which means it could be near the river. Notice the large decorative exposed beams under the very large overhanging eves. I took away a lot of stuff from around the house that looked like doors, windows, shutters and lumber. There were several ladders leaning around the house. I believe this house was being dismantled when the photo was taken. Miss Peacock had written on the back of the photo that it was probably being constructed or demolished. I don't think cameras were available when this house was built.
If anyone out there has any photos of a building similar to this or of this house I would really like to see them.
I do hope you like what I do and thanks for looking.
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"SHRIMP BOATS ARE A-CUMMING"

This is the No.113 painting of my 365/2010 series.
Title: "SHRIMP BOATS ARE A-CUMMING"
Size: 22X30 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches cold press paper.
Here is another boat demo. This time the scene is taken from another coast, the southern coast of Alabama. Some where around Fairhope, mobile area.
I do like shapes of the boats and the color that you usually find around them. Wonder where it's going next and what will be the catch.
I do hope you like what I do.
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"SAILING ON CAPE COD"

This is the No. 112 painting in my 365/2101 series.
Title: "SAILING ON CAPE COD"
Size: 22X30 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches 100% rag paper.
This scene is from sketches and photos from the trip to new England. These people were sailing just off the tip of the cape at Province town Mass.
I loved Mass. and all of New England. I also love the water. cruising, or just sitting watching the waters roll in.
This is another one of My demonstration paintings.

I do hope you like what I do.
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"THE OLD ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI HIGH SCHOOL"

This is the No. 111 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "THE OLD ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI HIGH SCHOOL"
Size: 5X7 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches cold press paper.
This is another on of the smaller paintings in my series.
Have you googled Aberdeen High School, lately. If you remember fondly this building, you probably don't want to.
I googled ever which way I could think of and only found one picture of this structure. What a shame.
This beautiful structure sits on the North side of Commerce St. on a beautiful boulevard and just a few blocks from downtown Aberdeen.
This is how it looked about 1964, the first time I saw it.
It is now the Middle school in Aberdeen.
My wife attended school in this building, and I know many of my FB friends did.
It's roughly done but I hope it brings back a LOT of memories for many of you.
I hope you like what I do.
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Please read all this post and pay your respects, please!

This is the No.110 painting in my 365/2010 series.

Title: "15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OKC BOMBINGS 169 VICTIMS"

Size: 20X24 inches

Medium: Acrylics on watercolor paper and Gloss varnish.

I needed to post this early so that your mind will stay on it tomorrow and that you have time to call and share my memorial with them. Please do pass this along.

April 19, 1995, at 9:01 am I was 118 block north of the bombing site. The shock of the blast shook my classroom door open. I did not actually hear the blast. but that's how strong the after shock of the event was. All through the rest of that day and night a few images would not leave me. The one of the twisted tricycle handle bars, the firemen hats, the crying babies, and the 6 floors that they kept showing that looked like concrete curtains blowing in open front apartments like you might have seen in Vietnam or Cambodia in the 60's. The next day I painted a large 36X48 painting to get those images down on canvas. you can see this painting in the acrylic gallery on my website. www.arniandersonartworks.com . Today i did those images again in this painting and added a few more for you to find and contemplate as you honor those 169 that died.

Follow the 6blue lines across the paper left to right for the flowing breezy image of those stripped bare floors of the Murrah Building, the 4-19- 1995 is done in black, that day was very black for most Americans. if you follow the red likes and the red spaces you'll find the fireman's helmet, there were so many of them, but do you remember the one carrying the body of little Bailey Almon, how could you forget it. If you follow the orange lines and spaces you can see the handlebars of a tricycle. Follow the pink lines and you'll see the tears and crying baby's face representing so many children who died, and please don't forget those orphaned. Images that came later are represented by the purple lines and spaces of the heart and ribbon pins. There were so many. I collected them I had over 50 different pins made and distributed by school children and organizations who just had to do something to show respect. Then there is the green lines and spaces of the chair. This is the design of the chairs beside the National Memorial
Reflecting pond in downtown OKC. Usual, as you have seen in my tribute paintings I make the names very difficult to find by obscuring them. NOT THIS TIME, I want them to be easily found and highlighted.

I do hope you like what I do.

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"OUR 2ND. HOUSE IN TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI"

This is the No. 109 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "OUR 2ND. HOUSE IN TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI"
Size: 5x7 inches.
Medium: Watercolor on 140 lb. DeArches cold press paper.
This is the smallest of the 109 painting that I have listed so far. They really are a little harder to so simply because of the brushes, hand and eyes getting tat the same place at the same time. LOL
When Nina and I moved back to
Tupelo in the early 1970 this is the house we bought. It is located on Choctaw street, just south of the North East Mississippi Medical Center. Nina worked there and it was very close to Sears where I was working at that time. We lived here a little over two years. This house was built by one of the Locke's of the Hardware family. It was a very small, but very nice house. It had all hardwood floors, fancy french doors and that amazing front window facing west. Beautiful unobstructed sunsets from atop this little hill. Remember many card games with the Charles and Pat Miller in this house. We left her for Searcy and to finish school.
I do hope you enjoy what I do.
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Thanks

"CELEBRATING JESSICA'S BIRTHDAY"

This is the No. 108 painting in my 365/2010 series
Title: "CELEBRATING JESSICA'S BIRTHDAY"
Size: 16X20 inches
Medium: Acrylic on canvas board.
Jessica is my daughter-in-law, the WIFE of my son John, and the mother of two of my grandsons, Colton and Owen. This painting is done in about 12 different shads of Reds (pinks included) her favorite color.In this painting you will find represented a coffee cup for her time with her friends, a book for her book club she likes. a bird for the St. Louis Cardinals, the OU logo, the Golden Arches for her work, a cross for her service to God, the date of her birth 4-17-??, and her age ??, You will also find these names, Trista, Paul, Janet, Lowell, Wilma, Debbie, Joe, Julia, Colton, Owen, Nina and arni. and a tire representing my first impressions of her.
I do hope you like what I do.
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"OLD DARRACOTT ROAD CHURCH" Aberdeen, Mississippi

This is the No. 107 painting in my 365/2010 series
Title: "OLD DARRACOTT ROAD CHURCH" Aberdeen, Mississippi
Size: 7X9 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb DeArches cold press paper
I do not know what kind of church this building housed but it must have been a really pretty place when it was active. I first saw this building in the early 60's but it wasn't till the late 70's that I put it on my list of things to do. I got inside the building and I know that at one time there were some stain glass windows in it. and a school type bell in the bell tower. There is a very old cemetery in the woods in back of the house with gravestones marked in the early 1880's.
Would love to know the name of the congregation, the name of the church as it was when it was built. Really I would love to hear anything about it.
I do hope you like what I do.
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"CELEBRATING DA VINCI'S 558 BIRTHDAY"

This is the No. 106 painting in my 365/2010 series,

Title: "CELEBRATING DA VINCI'S 558TH. BIRTHDAY"

Size 30X40 inches

Medium: Crayons, watercolor, rubber cement, Saran Wrap and a feather quill.

To me the greatest "ARTIST" ever born. The RENAISSANCE MAN. A well rounded man that could do anything and did. Inventor, scientist, teacher, theatrical, religious, and friend of kings.

In this painting you will find my interpretations of the two most reproduced pieces of art work ever created, both by Leonardo Da Vinci, The MONA LISA and THE LAST SUPPER. You will also find my favorite self portrait of Leonardo. You will find the top part of the VETRUIVAN MAN. You will also find an airplane (FLYING MACHINE) invented a long time before Kittyhawk.

Did you know that all of Da Vincis notes were written upside down and backwards. Mirrored images of the way they are usually written and read. you will find around the edges of this painting 10 of Da Vinci's most important inventions, YES, written upside down and backwards. Yes I did use a feather quill to write them. they are. Flying machine, catapult, bobbin, submarine, cross bow, helicopter, calculator, armored tank, and water lift.

Da Vinci is credited with over 100 inventions that he designed. many of them never made but would have worked. He invented the camera. There is only about 15 examples of Da Vinci's paintings remaining.

I do hope you like what I do.

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"ONE OF ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI'S UNIDENTIFIED"

This is the No. 105 painting in my 365/2010 series.

Title:"ONE OF ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI'S UNIDENTIFIED"

Size: 11X14

Medium: water color on 100% rag paper.

In 1982-83, Miss Peacock, Long time historian and Liberian of the Aberdeen Library helped me do a lot of research for the paintings I did for the McDonald's store there in Aberdeen. We had done a lot of work together when I worked for the Aberdeen Examiner in the late 60's early 70's. I wrote several feature articles about the historic homes and businesses while working at the Examiner. But, this time it was different, I gained her trust and she took me to her "ATTIC" in the library. She showed me things that she said she would like my help in identifying. These were pictures of mostly homes and landscapes. She said she had documentation and materials that these places existed once in Aberdeen. She had not been able to find them or any remains of the places. I spent several days comparing and looking closely at the architecture elements of these places in the photos and the houses in Aberdeen, but they still remain unidentified. I'm going to include in this series about 3 of them painted the way i think they might have looked during their heyday.

This is the first one, and what I observed about it...The photo lead me to believe that is very near the river on the east side of Aberdeen. The background suggests that. The only feature in Aberdeen anywhere like anything in the photo is a bay window that looks very much like the one in the photo and it is located on a small house behind the Plant house, which is across from the library. It is not exactly like the photo but it could have been remodeled. Could this house have been the house that once stood directly across from the present day hospital. Or the house that stood just one block south of there on the same side of the street? Documentation does show that two large houses were once there.

I'm wondering, because of the "river" in the background, if this house could have been on the east side of the river facing east away from Aberdeen..

COAL HOUSE IN LINCOLN VILLAGE"

This is the No. 104 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "COAL HOUSE IN LINCOLN VILLAGE"
Size: 9 1/2 X 11 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 100% rag, handmade, German paper.
Everyone in the village had a coal house. That's what kept them warn in the winters. COAL...big black rocks with oil in them, they burned very well. This is the little shed (house) at the back of the yard, backing up to the back ally, when the coal was kept after it was delivered. The coal house is also where you stored tools, fishing equipment, anything that you didn't need in the house. I can remember when the coal house had two doors and a 1/2 wall partition in the middle of it separating the coal of the two families that used the coal house. I can also remember when the coal house was used as a chicken coupe. MA and Pa raised chickens and this is where the chicken roosted. I played a lot in the coal house and even several times used it as a "make out" place with the girls. No I'm not naming names.
I do hope you like what I do.
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"IRIS NO. 1"

This is the No. 103 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: :IRIS NO. 1"
Size: 22 X 30 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches 100% rag paper.
This isanother Demonstration painting. This entire painting is done wet on wet putting in strong layer of very bright colors. The paper towels are crumpled and shaped to the shape of each individual petal of the flowers. while these sit soaking up some of the paint and making beautiful frilly edges for the flowers, sprinkle salt on the rest of the surface so that the texture is achieved in the background.
When the salt start to make the texture it's time to lift, straight up, the towels off the painting. Now you can use the hair dryer to speed up the drying time and the blower wont effect he salts work.
When the painting is dry. Put in the darker leaves and stems of the flowers and begin to separate the petals of each flower with paynes gray. First learn how to blend the edges so that you get one soft edge and one hard edge.
Didn't think you were going to get a painting lesson HUH?
I sure hope you like what I do.
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ANOTHER ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI TRAIN DEPOT'

This is the No. 102 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: ANOTHER ABERDEEN MISSISSIPPI TRAIN DEPOT"
Size: 22X30 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches 100%rag paper.
This is another demonstration painting.
This is one of at least 4 train stops like this in Aberdeen. I don't know but suspect there were more at one time.
This one is, I believe, on the north side of Commerce St. behind What use to be
Allmond Printing Company.
I don't know when I took the photos of this structure but it must have been in the 60's or earl 70's when i lived there.
I do hope you like what i do.
Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"WOODVILLE, ALABAMA SHED"

This is the No. 101 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "WOODVILLE, ALABAMA SHED"
Size: 7 1/2 X 9 1/2
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches cold press paper.
This shed is located on the same propriety as that of my No. 98 painting, "MY MON AND DAD'S FIRST PLACE", I'm sure it would have been used in those days much the same as it is today.
I love the way old barns and any structures lean. Te diagonals they create make for very interesting compositions.

"ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI, CHURCH OF CHRIST"

This is the No. 100 painting in my 365/2010 series

Title: "ABERDEEN, MISSISSIPPI CHURCH OF CHRIST"

Size: 11X14 inches

Medium: Watercolor on 100% handmade paper.

This is the Old Aberdeen Mississippi Church of Christ. Located on Columbus Street.

This is the building where Nina and I got married, Aug. 27, 1965. We attended church there till the new building was built out on Highway 45 north.

I think there is a day care run by another church in the building now. I loved the basement in the building.

It was very small but very comfortable to worship inside.

Eddie Birkholz and Johnny Hickman were the first elders installed in this building.

"CELEBRATING PICASSO'S DEATH"

This is the No. 99 painting in my 365/2010 series
Title: "CELEBRATING PICASSO'S DEATH"
Size: 22Z30 inches
Medium: Mr. Sketch (scented) markers and water.
MY FAVORITE ARTIST...Pablo Picasso died 37 years ago on this date. April 8, 1973. He was 92 years old and would have been 129 years old today if he was still living. Picasso i believe was the 19Th century's Genius. Gertrude Stien once said that Picasso was 50 years ahead of his contemporaries, and that's how you define a genius, someone that's 50 years ahead of everyone else in their thinking.
What all could I say about Picasso....Not enough room or time here but I would like to tell you about the Picasso that many do not know. Unfortunately most people know Picasso only by his MODERN ABSTRACTIONS. Picasso never had a childhood, He grew up with art materials literally in his hand. Dy the time he was 10 he was painting realism like the old masters. He had a great and unparalleled grasp of anatomy. He said that to paint like a child, with the freedom of expression of a child and the simplicity of a child, was what he was trying to accomplish. Living to be 92 and a master at 10-15 years of age, He had to invent new ways to express his genius ideas.
Picasso Painted the curvature and the plots of earth the way it really looked a quarter of a century before man was ever above flew above it to look down on it. Picasso has influenced every artist since his birth even when some will not admit to his influence.
Picasso could not speak e\English and he never visited the United States. My favorite quote of Picasso's was something to this effect. He told his gallery representative and personal business manager that...He was the only man in the world that could counterfeit money and get by with it. HOW? He said..."I just sign my name and tell them whats it worth"
This is one painting with three themes. The first one is my interpretations of a young Picasso from one of his self portraits. Turn it upside down to the 2ND image and it's an older Picasso with his hand on his head contemplating yet another great piece. and the third turned side ways is those EYES.
This piece is done with Mr. Sketch , scented, markers and water.
Wonder what Picasso would have done with SCENTED, NEON, MARKERS.
I do hope you like what I do.
Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"SNOW SCENE USING ONLY RED AND GREEN"

This is the No.98 painting in my365/2010 series.
Title: "SNOW SCENE USING ONLY RED AND GREEN"
Size 22X30 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches cold press paper.
This is another demonstration painting done in front of a group of people, taking about 30 minutes. There are only two paints used in this painting, Alizron Crimson (red) and Thalo Green. Mixing these two paints exactly 50% each will give you a rich Paynes Gray that won't fade out like the Paynes Gray in the tube will. Leaning to the right or left a little when you mix will give you the neutrals, browns and grays. Depending to which side you lean, red or green, you can vary the neutrals toward that end.
I do hope you enjoy what I do.
Comment and/or remarks are appreciated.

"DANCING MAN"

This is the No.97 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "DANCING MAN"
Size: 22X30 inches.
Medium: Watercolor on 140 lb. DeArches 100%rag paper.
This is another demonstration painting. I met this young man at Red Earth Festival several years ago and have painted him several time. He make a great subject for this type of quick painting.
As I was painting this, thoughts came in my head about my favorite contemporary Native American Painter and friend, Bert Seabourn. That's when I decided to put in the round image in the background. Google Bert Seabourn, his early things, and you'll see why.
I sure hope you like what I do.
Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"MOM AND DAD'S FIRST PLACE" Woodville, Alabama

This is the No. 96 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "MOM AND DAD'S FIRST PLACE" Woodville Ala.
Size: 7X9 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeArches Watercolor paper.
I have a letter dated Jan. 11, 1943 That my Dad wrote to my mother about three months before they got married.
The letter was written and mailed from Flintville, Tennessee. I think he was living with My uncle Carl and aunt Catherine because of a reference that Cat had already gone to bed. But in a k joking like manner he said the he wished my mother could read the letter that Cat wrote and wanted her to mail but he wasn't going to mail it. He told Mom in the letter that he was going to Huntsville Sat. night even "if it hair-lips hell". He also said "even though I've an idea whats coming. I don't know, but I'll take a chance for what is to be will be". I think he was talking them making plans to marry. He says that he is going to Woodville and would be staying with Copeland, his brother. He closes abruptly so he can "get this in the mail.
We've evidence that when they did get married they stayed with Copeland and Alma for a while. I believe it was in this house. This house has been remodled several times and is going through another facelift now. I took off some of the additions and put the old lumber, windows, roof and porch from the period of the late 30's early 40's.
I sure hope you like what I do.
Comments and/or remarks are appreciated.

"OUR FIRST HOUSE IN SEARCH, ARKANSAS" actually Judsonia

This is the No. 94 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "OUR FIRST HOUSE IN SEARCY ARKANSAS" actually Judsonia.
Size: 9X11 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 100% handmade German Paper.

In 1972, Nina and I decided that Me teaching school, which was what I had always wanted to do, was the thing we were going to do. We headed for Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas with a very little girl, She would work I would finish as fast as I could and we would move on. Our first rental place we were going to live did not look so good. We found this this place or I really should say God just meant for us to have it. so we bought it. How? We will never know. Anyway. It is really in Judsonia, Arkansas. just down the road from the school about 4 miles, not a bad drive for the deal. If you don't know Judsonia, Arkansas has been leveled 4 times during it's history by Tornados. We didn't know that either. So the first night we we in the house, You guessed it a big tornado. The next morning we found a cow in our back yard. Someone came and got it, i guess it was theirs. So began a very good experience while I finished school and live there two years teaching.
We had lots of friends to our house and many great memories are still hanging around that were made there.
I do hope you enjoy what I do.
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"ABERDEEN'S, FLOWER OF THE WORD, LAURI MUNDI"

Title: "ABERDEEN'S, Flower of the World, LAURI MUNDI" 1847

SIZE: 11x14 INCHES

MEDIUM: WATERCOLORS ON 140LB. DEARCHES RAG PAPER.

LAURI MUNDI means flower of the world and Aberdeen is not the only place that has one. There is one as close as COLUMBUS, Mississippi and several on the east coast.

This one was built in 1845 by the Rev. Turner Sanders and first sold to Bishop Robert Paine. The Paine family still own it. The piece of furniture you see in this post is about 5 feet from me as I type this. My father-in-;as Johnny Hickman bout it out of the basement in the early 60's and Nina and I kept it as one of the pieces from their estate after they both passed away.

Back to the house. This house sit secluded on a 20 acre tract in the middle of Aberdeen with several outer houses. This house boast of plaster crown moldings and medallions that are not to be found elsewhere in this region. Also it has the only Marble front steps that I've found. There are several Tiffany Windows surround the front double doors. These were installed in the early 1900's by the same company that did the windows for the First United Methodist Church in Aberdeen. The house cannot be seen from the entrance off Matubba Street just south of Commerce St.

I do hope you enjoy what I do.

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"DANCING EGRET"

This is the No. 93 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "DANCING EGRET"
Size: 22X30 inches
Medium: Watercolor on 140lb. DeAraches cold pressed paper.
This Egret was displaying it's plumage at the Oklahoma City Zoo, a couple of summers ago. I love birds and especially the great birds of paradise, when they are showing their plumage. This is a night scene totally made up as the way I thought this might look.
I do hope you enjoy what I do.
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"APRIL FOOLS" not really read on.

This is the No.2. 92 painting in my 365/2010 series.
Title: "APRIL FOOLS" not really read on.....
Size: 22X30 inches
Medium: Thalo Blue watercolor and DeArches 100% rag paper.
There are two crosses in this painting. one near the left center and one near the right center.
Which cross do yo think in the WHITEST.. Not the brightest.
It's the one on the right, the one that is the hardest to see. FOOLED YOU!!!!!!!!
The cross on the left had not been painted it is the RAW paper showing. The one on the left has a very think coat of Thalo Blue on it.
Principal involved is the same as one your grandmothers use to use when they added BLUEING to their washing of clothes to make the whites whiter. Anyone Remember those days?
Hers's how it was done. I taped out the cross on the left and then coated the entire paper with a mixture of water and Thalo Blue in a glass container so I could see when i got just the right light shade of blue to make the white whiter and not turn the paper blue. VERY LIGHT. I did coat the paper with that mixture. Dried the paper and the taped out the cross on the right.
Now i painted another coat of the same mixture over the entire surface again. the back ground now had two layers of the blue on it, the right cross has one layer of blue and the left cross is still just paper. take the tape off and not only is the right cross WHITE, (lighter) but the cross on the left appears brighter. and more yellowish than before. Also and I think you can tell fro the photo that the cross on the left makes the left side of the whole painting more blue (darker) than the right side. although they are the same color.
Be Careful what you think you see is not always as it appears.
I do hope you like what I do.
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