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A painting I wanted to do of some beautiful chrysanthemum flowers in a blue vase with a medium yellow background accented by the blue vase and the dark green leaves under the flowers, I added Coco our cat laying under the flowers who has swatted some of them and knocked them off, to make an interesting picture.....................

Born in San Diego, California in 1936, I grew up with a fasination for Art, it has always held my interest and always those great 19th century Impressionist painters. from 1888 to 1890 Vincent painted his greatest paintings...........in his letters to his brother Theo he wrote he wanted the painters of the future to advance his theory of line and color, I have now after 60 years of studying his way's , it will be Van Gogh Continued, all my works will carry on his way, some of his motifs and some of mine, no one can copy Vincent, its impossible but in our own way we can paint his way. "Painting and drawing, a natural and urgent need to express what I see became serious in the middle fifties. Self taught with much desire, progress...