I retired from teaching art for 35-1/2 years and realized that I could do anything I wanted for the rest of my life. I decided to paint. I also knew that I was not as good a painter as I was a teacher so I thought this might be a difficult task. I liked the idea of facing a challenge like that. The thing that pushed me harder, to create a larger body of work, was my cousin - Bill McCarthy - he was going to have a show in a store in a local city and he is a potter - he needed someone to show some two-dimensional works. He asked me and I was ready to...more
