Worm Study

Friends -
This is a water color painting that I completed this morning. It is my
second water color in about 45 years, and I think I works. More often I do
oil paintings, gourds or pastels. Yet there is something about the clarity
of color and simplicity of form that comes from a water color painting is so
perfect for a subject like children. They are, after all, clear and simple
about the world and they necessarily translate events into those terms by
the innocence of their sweet minds.

And - no bias intended - the perfection of my 4-1/2 year old grandson,
Benjamin, teaching his 1-1/2 year old little brother, Leonardo, about
worms...... well, that is about as clear and simple and beautiful as you can
get.

Enjoy this painting. It is not for sale, although for a donation to
Esperanza Scholarship Fund at Lane Community College (in Eugene, where my
grandsons live), I will trade you a print.

Be well.

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