"patient at bluefield sanitarium" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Personals:Miss Katherine Guthrie, Raleigh terrace is a patient at Bluefield sanitarium, under treatment for a broken wrist sustained in a fall, Thursday afternoon.source: BLUEFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH,...

"she was still not out of danger" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.In this series I will select random photographs and crop out their identities then paint them with an X on their "broken arm". I have done some research and found unconnected but relative stories,...

"mia" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper."liam" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Christmas gifts for my sister-in-law.

"kiana" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Jacob's Aunt Dolly sent a photo of her granddaughter, Kiana. I cropped it and painted her cute face. I will send it off to Indonesia soon.

"girl with a j necklace" 5.625 x 3.75 inches, acrylic on photopaper.I did a series of casual, random shots at the state fair with the intention of making some paintings from them. This is the first trying a horizontal format.Did you know: In November of 1884, a group...

"sticks and stones" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Not being sure what I would work on, I started to look for stories of broken arms. I found an account of a riot in Glasgow dated April 25, 1821. It was in anger against the celebration of the birthday of King...

Took some photos at the AZ State Fair so that I could do some experimenting with wax and crayons on original images.Some failures: transferring image onto wax coated board did not work. Same goes for trying an acetone transfer, it was very blotchy. And a heat transfer...

"Ena" 5 x 7 inches, acrylic on canvas.There are three Rosena McLarnon's in my family. My grandmother, (who was born a McKee), her daughter (my father's sister), and then my sister.This is my aunt, whom we all called Ena. She was the first in my father's immediate...

"l'amérique du sud" 6 x 4.33 inches, collage on paint chip card"the country wife" 6 x 4.33 inches, collage on paint chip card

Continuing to publish my series on issuu and MagCloud, here is the newest release which can be read online and downloaded for free. If you purchase a printed copy from MagCloud, I donate all the profit to the Tenement Museum in New York City, which preserves the...

"wilma and melvin's clothes go to the fair" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Leafing through the archived news pages for 1942 not only did I find a nice little story about the Joplin 4-H club to support the blue dress, but I also found some other interesting...