The title says it all... For years I have wanted to paint these miniature images of my childhood memories...some come easy some I struggle with. The ones that are painted are the ones that have made a big impression in my life. "I now started adding other daily paintings from my art life...And if I remember a childhood memory that needs to be painted, it will be added"
Friday, March 27, 2009
Union Square feeding Pigeons
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Playland Carousel 1950's
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Mom used to take us to Playland in San Francisco, at times she would allow us to take the bus by ourselves and just spend all day there, it was after the war and filled with sailors. Doubt you could do this nowadays.
Our favorite place outside of the Fun House was the Carousel. My sister Alex and I had our favorite horses, mine being a Black and sis liking the White one. I have no memory of how exactly it looked...here is my interpretation, most likely not an outside horse, as they where standing horses.
I remember thinking while going up and down on the black steed, that someday I was going to own a black horse (which I did) and I would ride it at my favorite places, on the beach and the Golden Gate Park, galloping with the breeze hitting my face, my hair tussled in the wind. I loved my black Carousel horse, and if someone else was riding it, I would wait till that kid got off.
When the Carousel sold/auctioned off in the '70s, I seriously debated on buying one of the Black horses instead of my Arabian mare and foal...it certainly would have been cheaper and a better investment, although I would not had gotten the joy of having my Arabian horse breeding program.
Monday, March 9, 2009
San Francisco Beach
I'm still messing around with the font colors, can't make up my mind, just want it to be easy to read...any input would be appreciated
This scene is on our Birthday, March 12th 1951, my mom took us to Playland and the San Francisco Beach. We always went there on weekends and ate at the Cliff House...mom had moved us to San Francisco where she worked at KNBC and then at Fiberboard Paper Products(my sister and I both worked at Fiberboard later on, where the image of me ended up on the SunMaid Raisin box)
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