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These are the first fifty paintings I finished, from March 1993, the
month I turned sixty, to August 1994. I copied them out of my notebook just
the way I wrote them down, with the titles I gave them and the date I
signed each one. Most of them I painted along with a tape of the program,
so they are really his paintings done by my hand. A few are my own idea, and
you can tell which ones, because they're the ones with something wrong with
them.
If you're just starting out and your first one looks like a sand pile,
read Number 1 and then read Number 50.
| No. |
Title |
Signed |
| 1. | Mountain Lake
Jo says it looks like a sand pile next to a puddle. It does. Still hanging in the garage, for humility. | March 13, 1993 |
| 2. | Mountain Lake, Second Try
Better sand pile. | March 20, 1993 |
| 3. | Evergreens at Dusk
Every tree exactly the same. See my front page about measuring. | March 31, 1993 |
| 4. | Snowy Cabin | April 7, 1993 |
| 5. | Lake with a Cloud I'm Proud Of
The cloud is good. Ignore the rest. | April 17, 1993 |
| 6. | Gray Mountain
Too much black in the mix. | April 24, 1993 |
| 7. | The Creek Behind Lewis's Place
My first one not off the television. Lewis Bradt ran the next lathe over from mine for twenty years. He has it in his den. | May 4, 1993 |
| 8. | First Seascape
The waves look like lettuce. | May 15, 1993 |
| 9. | Spring Meadow | May 22, 1993 |
| 10. | Old Barn in Fog
First time I used the palette knife for a building. Crooked roof. | June 2, 1993 |
| 11. | Two Pines | June 12, 1993 |
| 12. | Big Mountain, Small Cabin | June 19, 1993 |
| 13. | Winter Lake
A winter painting in June. It was ninety degrees in the garage and it helped. | June 26, 1993 |
| 14. | The Fourth of July Painting
A lake at sunset, painted while the grandkids did sparklers in the driveway. | July 4, 1993 |
| 15. | Summer Pond | July 10, 1993 |
| 16. | Wheat Field at Sunset
First time I got alizarin crimson to behave. | July 17, 1993 |
| 17. | Mountain Stream | July 31, 1993 |
| 18. | Covered Bridge
From a calendar picture, not the program. | Aug. 14, 1993 |
| 19. | Birches
Liner brush practice. | Aug. 28, 1993 |
| 20. | Lighthouse | Sept. 11, 1993 |
| 21. | Fall Woods
Cadmium yellow and Indian yellow on everything, including me. | Oct. 2, 1993 |
| 22. | Cabin by the Lake | Oct. 9, 1993 |
| 23. | Indian Summer
Jo's favorite of the first year. Over the couch. | Oct. 23, 1993 |
| 24. | Frosty Morning | Nov. 6, 1993 |
| 25. | Big Mountain Again | Nov. 13, 1993 |
| 26. | Barn in Snow
For Jo's sister in Fort Wayne. | Nov. 27, 1993 |
| 27. | Mountain with Waterfall
The waterfall didn't work. Painted over it. See the next one. | Dec. 4, 1993 |
| 28. | Mountain with Waterfall, Second Try
The waterfall worked. | Dec. 8, 1993 |
| 29. | Christmas Cabin
Gave it to our pastor. | Dec. 18, 1993 |
| 30. | Night Sky over the Lake
My first one on a black canvas. Moonlight is harder than it looks. | Jan. 8, 1994 |
| 31. | Winter Barn | Jan. 15, 1994 |
| 32. | Snowbound
Painted with the garage door shut, it was so cold that month. | Jan. 22, 1994 |
| 33. | Valentine's Painting for Jo
A lake. She likes lakes. | Feb. 12, 1994 |
| 34. | Mountain at Dawn | Feb. 19, 1994 |
| 35. | Ice on the River | Feb. 26, 1994 |
| 36. | March Wind
Bent trees. On purpose this time. | March 12, 1994 |
| 37. | Ocean Cliffs
Still haven't seen the ocean. | March 19, 1994 |
| 38. | Muddy Road
Jo says this is the most honest painting I've done. I'm not sure that's a compliment. | April 2, 1994 |
| 39. | Spring Creek | April 16, 1994 |
| 40. | Old Mill
The water wheel took three evenings. | April 30, 1994 |
| 41. | Lakeside Path | May 7, 1994 |
| 42. | Evening Pines | May 21, 1994 |
| 43. | Our Garage, From the Driveway
The only one I've ever painted with the subject right in front of me. | June 4, 1994 |
| 44. | Wildflower Hill | June 11, 1994 |
| 45. | Grandpa's Farm, From Memory
My grandfather's place. Got the silo wrong; nobody alive to tell me so but me. | June 25, 1994 |
| 46. | Northern Lights
For the Alaska in all those mountains. | July 9, 1994 |
| 47. | Thunderhead | July 16, 1994 |
| 48. | Quiet Lake | July 23, 1994 |
| 49. | Sailboat
For my grandson, who likes boats. | Aug. 6, 1994 |
| 50. | The Fiftieth
A mountain lake, on purpose, to hang next to Number 1. Jo says it doesn't look like a sand pile. I'll take it. | Aug. 20, 1994 |
The next 162 are in a second notebook and part of a third. Maybe someday
I'll type those up too, but Lindsay says nobody needs to read about two
hundred mountain lakes, and she's probably right.
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