Watercolour
My dad always fancied himself an artist. When we (I have three brothers) were growing up, he used to draw caricatures of my mother, and at one time (before I was born, I think), he had drawn a cartoonish baby duck, which forever hung on the wall in my room. (Come to think of it, I don't know whatever happened to that.)
After he retired from Coca-Cola, he began to devote much time to painting landscapes, getting a great deal of encouragement from my then-wife Penny.
This might have been his first "finished" painting... His technique was not very developed yet; he hadn't quite gotten the grasp of watercolours as its paint is quite thick and not really very translucent. But he eventually got the hang of it and each subsequent painting got better and better.
In the lower left corner of the frame is a prayer card, printed on the occasion of his death on May 27, 1992. In the lower right corner are a caricature that Penny drew of him one night (while we were playing Uno or something) and a photo I took of him with my parents' dog, Taffy.
I've Photoshop'd out the dining room light (not all too well, I must admit) as it cast an unwanted shadow.
Watercolour
My dad always fancied himself an artist. When we (I have three brothers) were growing up, he used to draw caricatures of my mother, and at one time (before I was born, I think), he had drawn a cartoonish baby duck, which forever hung on the wall in my room. (Come to think of it, I don't know whatever happened to that.)
After he retired from Coca-Cola, he began to devote much time to painting landscapes, getting a great deal of encouragement from my then-wife Penny.
This might have been his first "finished" painting... His technique was not very developed yet; he hadn't quite gotten the grasp of watercolours as its paint is quite thick and not really very translucent. But he eventually got the hang of it and each subsequent painting got better and better.
In the lower left corner of the frame is a prayer card, printed on the occasion of his death on May 27, 1992. In the lower right corner are a caricature that Penny drew of him one night (while we were playing Uno or something) and a photo I took of him with my parents' dog, Taffy.
I've Photoshop'd out the dining room light (not all too well, I must admit) as it cast an unwanted shadow.