Gallery 1603

Gallery 1603 Small intimate art space which creates new and different shows three times a year.

This is a warm comfortable setting for you to better understand how art can look in the home.

From time to time I'll put out a new one...I may illustrate a few when I get it finished for e book,,,,this is one from...
03/12/2020

From time to time I'll put out a new one...I may illustrate a few when I get it finished for e book,,,,this is one from 2016 ...sitting in the yard in the swing,,,,in April

03/06/2020

maybe this is a little better

03/06/2020

I began keeping a sketch book over seventy years ago...I have kept most of them, some have been lost or stolen but I still have probably thirty left...haven't counted them...humbling experience looking at the early ones. Most of them were at least 8.5 x 11. Laura my youngest, began giving me ones that were smaller when she was young...I never told her I worked in larger ones...she was so happy giving me the smaller pretty ones. So rather than draw I began writing in them. If Laura had never begun giving me the smaller ones I would not now be in the act of getting about 300 poems etc recopied in type. I treasure these writings because they have been done for almost 60 years sitting in my garden reflecting on life, God, flowers and love...this will be a book someday. From time to time I will publish one as I work on them...please let me have your input. will put the first one out after supper

12/13/2019

Well things are going pretty well here...there was a lot of interest in the art glass in the show with a number of pieces sold...For a first show in Commerce Texas we did pretty well. You can still visit through the 12th of January by phoning ahead of time...there will be several spots in the show which have been refilled following pieces of glass from the show being sold. The new glass has new images. From now through the Christmas season we will be concentrating on family....Here's hoping each one of you have a Christmas filled with love,presents and laughter.

11/24/2019

Well things were pretty slow yesterday but Wiley Higgins and his wife Joanne stopped by and that made up for a slow day in a big way. You see he came to East Texas State University the second year I was here...in the fifties...and the art department was in an army barracks...we were beginning from scratch. The first summer my wife and I built all the tables used in our three room barracks. Then Wiley came in and sorta became my gofer,picker up after, helper, builder and friend. He jogged my memory and brought back old students and things that happened...a great afternoon. I wonder if he and any others remembering us silk screening and it was snowing outside and the fumes got so heavy that we just went outside, sat on the steps in the snow to recover from the fumes.For me those were good times.

11/23/2019

Friday went pretty good
Dick and Debbie Mitchell came and we had long talk about going from small painting as sketch to the larger painting and the problems you encounter keeping it fresh etc. and Debra Lytle about how many portrait painters there are that took my watercolor class....in case you didn't know Debra is a good portrait painter and one of them and Dick does outstanding paintings of animals and angry birds....and nobody drank the wine...maybe today

Yep...a bit of humor from Gail today..." well at least we have a beautiful living room now"...I think she was thinking o...
11/21/2019

Yep...a bit of humor from Gail today..." well at least we have a beautiful living room now"...I think she was thinking of the rain scheduled in for tomorrow. Well for those with boats I've got 123 different things I call art for you to see. This one is a shear fabric about 4 by 8 that I had fun with....Yep I counted them to see how many there really were.

Hey just six days to go before I get to meet some of you...this is an exciting time for me...when you come and possibly ...
11/16/2019

Hey just six days to go before I get to meet some of you...this is an exciting time for me...when you come and possibly like my Vegas tiles, like this one, and wish there were more to see than those on the walls...secret ...I've got more shelved, just ask and we will get them out...see you soon

I love to write poetry or blank verse ,often it is accompanied by a watercolor of mine,...as in this case...The show has...
11/11/2019

I love to write poetry or blank verse ,often it is accompanied by a watercolor of mine,...as in this case...The show has a couple of these watercolor images with out the words , this is one of them. This is from sketches in Glazier National park back in younger days when you could almost run up the mountain...I laugh at that thought now.

In the show there will be a number of my little Doodles,,,but all of them will have solid bottoms accept for a couple of...
11/06/2019

In the show there will be a number of my little Doodles,,,but all of them will have solid bottoms accept for a couple of them used for decorative display...these will have openings for soil and charcoal. I have pretty well figured out ratios of soil to charcoal to volume which allows me to plant, water and fertilize and never have to worry about water overflow or having to use a saucer ...if you are interested and you come to the show I'll show you how. I'll put on... my geverny ...page, drawings etc. later about this.

I love gardening and I often sit out in the garden even when I have to have a heavy sweater.This little thing was writte...
11/02/2019

I love gardening and I often sit out in the garden even when I have to have a heavy sweater.This little thing was written on such an occasion. I have another site on Facebook that I write on sometimes...it is gardening thoughts and poems along with it. I will be doing a lot more on it from now on. It is ....My Giverny. This little one is from one of those days you sort of dread....winter. I used it for my theme in decorating for the show...you will see when you come what I mean.

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75428

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