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"The Main Station"

"The Old Steam Engine"

Fascinated by the railroads and the mystic it held, is certainly an artist delight. The days of the old stations and steam engines have faded in time...but the memory goes on. While painting "The Old Steam Engine" there were times I thought I could hear the whistling of steam and feel the bellowing black smoke forcibly pushing its way upward into the sky above...then, diminishing out of sight. The power the engine had to have to pull the many freight cars, taking them to their respective destination. Those days will never return but many artist have captured the past and have given the world the memory that once was. "The Main Station" watercolor is in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. "The Old Steam Engine" watercolor is in Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

Thanks for visiting my homepage. I do hope you will enjoy each section and revisit it often. I have various interest in the arts. I have worked in different medias and have attempted to learn as much as I can in each, although I can't say I have mastered any of them. My current interest is using the computer and creating this webpage. I never knew there was so much to learn. While I have learned several software programs I have yet to attempt the more difficult programs to make this webpage come alive, such as Dreamweaver and Flash. Hopefully, my brain will hold out for me to learn both packages.

I am a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute and I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, with a major in commercial art of which I dearly love. Currently, I design advertisments for several companies in my area. These "ads" are published in the Kansas City Home Design magazine and the Kansas City Homes and Garden magazine. I recently did an ad for the "Kansas City Book" which will soon be in the local book stores. When I'm not working I like to create humorous ideas and illustrate them in my own simple style. I also have found sculpting in polymer clay, to be, quite an interesting media.

"Early Arrival" This was an exercise in perspective. The railroad tracks seem to disappear reaching way back in the distance to bring the locomotive into view. This watercolor went to California.

The pictures above are just three of my watercolors that I have done but, there are more within the pages and I hope you take the time to look at them. While I don't paint as much as I used to I still have interest in watercolors and consider it to be one of my favorite medias. My philosophy is to convey on paper a story that will draw my readers to want to stop and study and maybe remember an event that might have happened in their own lifetime. As you will observe - all my watercolors are almost realistic as opposed to abstract. Maybe one of these days I will feel I have the liberty to do an abstract and not fear that the little men in white jackets would come after me. On second thought, maybe I'll stick with realism.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas __Linus Pauling

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