When one of my oil painting students strode into our evening class with a care free air and a broad smile, we wondered what brought about his vibrant attitude.
As if conducting an orchestra, he gestured to us while explaining that over the weekend, his lakefront cabin was broken into and several of his paintings were stolen.
Instead of being irate, our companion was overjoyed! He felt he had arrived! It sems that although his friends and relatives had not praised his canvas works, someone appreciated them enough to carry them off to a new home.
I was reminded that three of my paintings had gone off to new owners not through a sale but through stealth and thievery,
Being a Cub Scout co-Den Mother with Margaret Weber, I learned that her husband Bill was skilled in woodworking. Bill made several frames for me out of old barnwood. He inserted a panel into one oval frame and I painted a Naples Yellow and Burnt Umber work from the Scotty’s Retreat section of the “hanging out tree”. I liked that tip of land and its tree and felt it went well with that barnwood frame.
On the second day of a Hobby Show Event at The Louisville Fairgrounds, I walked into my booth to discover the painting was missing from the easel where it had been displayed.
A large painting of Wolf Pen Mill was supposed to be taken to the Cain Center but the worker who was to deliver it took it elsewhere.
While I parked my van after setting up my space on The Mall in Louisville, a group of teenagers distracted my Mother who was watching the booth. They left with a Daisey painting.
Although I am not elated that these paintings left my shadow, I hope the new owners treat them well.