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      <image:caption>Animals and People 3 “Fire and Ice” a championship Arabian who like Smarty Jones caught my attention and inspired me to create this portrait. It happens that sometime after I did this drawing, we discovered quite by chance that Fire and Ice was in the bloodlines of several Arabian Paints owned by my friend Diana. Quite a coincidence.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Animals and People 2 Smarty Jones was the 2004 Kentucky Derby winner and came within one spot of becoming a triple crown winner. I was smitten with some of his many photos and drew this “portrait” of him simply because I thought him a beautiful creature.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Animals and People 7 W. L. Setser of Frankln, NC was my wife’s grandfather and was the unquestioned patriarch of the Setser family. A simple man of simple means, he worked on logging crews, managed a family farm, and as he grew older ran a simple country store and gas station along the “Murphy Road”. As a young man, he was reputed to be the only man in Macon County who could manage a 10 mule wagon team. He was q quiet fellow who deserved one’s attention when he had something to say. He paid his bills, minded his own business, honored his family, and could serve as an example for most of us to live our lives. Seen here he was loaded with bags of corn to feed his cattle.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Animals and People 5 “Two Boys Fishin’?” As I look into this drawing, I can see myself as a youngster through either one of these kids. Goin’ fishing with Dad was always a source of excitement, but growing bored with the actual fishing part usually led to some other way to pass the time: skipping rocks, playing with an old stick, sneaking my feet into the cool water ….. having fun …. killing time. Memory is a great place to store things.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Animals and People 6 “Gall” was a Hunkpapa Lakota War Chief who served along with the more famous Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Big Horn against the forces of General George A Custer. By most modern accounts Gall deserves at least as much, and perhaps more credit than Sitting Bull in the defeat of the forces of General Custer. Both chiefs later fled into Canada. Gall had disagreements with Sitting Bull, returned to the US, surrendered and lived the rest of his life on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. While on the reservation he took the name “Abraham”. This drawing is simply a pen and ink representation of a historical portrait. He is a striking, proud and rather intimidating man as seen here.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Animals and People 9 “Danny’s Buck”. This “portrait” of a handsome mule deer is based on a mount that hangs in the living room of a good friend Danny Moore who lives in West Virginia. Several of us often visited Danny’s during our hunting trips to West Virginia and would spend many hours in his home, swapping lies, watching football, recapping our days and admiring this handsome fellow who constantly stood watch over us. There are lots of special memories that come to mind whenever I look at “Danny’s Buck”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Animals and People 1 I saw somewhere a tattoo similar to this image. It completely captured me as it blended my love of feathers with the grace and beauty of horses. The vision of horses, either in real like for somehow reproduced will always grab my interest. Like a few other prints herein, this one will not be offered for sale.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Animals and People 8 “Parker” was a Gordon Setter who belonged to my friend Steve. When Steve moved to Tennessee, near Nashville, he found the quail hunting on area farms to be quite productive. He studied up on the best bird dogs and decided Gordons were a good fit for him. He got Parker as a pup, trained him well and enjoyed many hours in his company over the following years. I enjoyed a few trips hunting behind Parker, but without Steve around “this dog don’t hunt”. If Steve stopped, Parker stopped.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Animals and People 4 Pepper, bless her little heart was the cherished pet of my youngest daughter Melissa. “Pep” came to be loved by the entire family. She was with us for a number of years and left all of us with good memories. I am not offering this print for sale.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 16 Most people call this “dreamcatcher”. I honestly didn’t intend for it to be a dreamcatcher when I started, but like so many of these mindless works, it goes wherever it goes. I like “Dreamcatcher”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 4 Like many of the graphics, this one had no particular purpose. Maybe the objective is to learn to draw (or to learn how not to try to draw) something.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 6 This graphic is one of my favorites, for no reason other than I can get immersed in the detail. Some it seems to have simplicity in the objects but nice balance and detail that I find pleasing to the eye and even a bit striking. The border is broken by a circular form which also adds something I find pleasing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 10 Maybe this should be called “doodling”. Nothing special aside from the symmetry, but it gifted me some good therapy from the process of producing it with no particular objective.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 1 I sometimes call this “waiting”. My wife was hospitalized in ICU for an extended time. Visitation was limited to certain times and was brief when allowed. I drew this entirely while passing time, often alone in the ICU waiting room. It sometimes makes me recall unpleasant times, but there is healing within it as Marilyn survived the crisis in spite of odds against her.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 9 My day job travels sometimes took me to places far from home. On long international flights, usually in and out of Europe I would pass the time drawing. This particular one started with flowers and stayed with flowers, mostly drawing with a standard ballpoint pen, thus the softer tones of this drawing. Many of the “models” from these flowers were found in the flower garden outside the small “gasthaus” (guest house) I stayed in near Germany’s Black Forest region.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 15 My dad was quite a talented woodworker. One of his favorite things to carve was mushrooms. He would carve them by the dozens and arrange them on hanging strings that would sometimes reach from floor to ceiling. This is a simple work, but I really like it because it reminds me of him.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 13 I wanted to feature redbirds in this, but I’ve never been especially pleased with the redbirds in each corner, but otherwise I find it pleasing. Like some other, this drawing was mostly completed while in hospital waiting areas.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 5 Mary Poppins sang of a few of her favorite things: When I'm feeling sad... I simply remember my favorite things And then I don't feel so bad A few of my favorite things are present in this drawing with a butterfly, a jack-in-the-pulpit, a rainbow trout, an owl, a mischievous little wren, and a sprinkling of flowers with other odds and ends. I’m reminded of the song: “A Few of My Favorite Things”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 12 Another work of symmetry that features feathers and Cardinals, my bride’s “spirit bird” (although she calls them redbirds). Redbirds have become a part of our lives, especially in times of trouble when we call on them to speak to us and bring us strength and faith.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 8 I sometimes call this one “Duke”. Our family spent several months in and around Durham, NC working through the challenges of a medical procedure. I drew this in part during, and in part following that time. Imbedded into this drawing are initials of numerous couples who were part of this journey with us at Duke. This drawing is a testament to their collective strength and perseverance.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 2 I worked with this drawing for about two years before I decided it was finished. I took so long that I can’t really recall where it started, but it was somewhere near the center. Like many of my drawings, feathers are present, but overall this is just a collection of thoughts and objects, moods and dreams and visions. It is one of my personal favorites.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 17 While I’ve lost the “burn” for fly fishing I once had, I still have many fond memories of the fun, challenges, and time with friends that it brought me. I must have been in a nostalgic mood - who knows.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 3 This was my first experiment with symmetry. I originally named it “Symmetry” but as time went on I came up with several other works that were symmetrical, so I began to number them as they came into being. Now I’m lost for renames but I always enjoy revisiting these works.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 7 This symmetrical work speaks to me through the brown trout featured top and bottom. I have always found peace and calm when I’m around water. Fly fishing was a passion for many years, and remains a pastime, although I have grown to understand that fly fishing for trout is more about the places one gets to visit than it is about catching a fish. Besides, being repeatedly outsmarted by a creature with a brain the size of a pea can be very humbling.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 11 Another random doodle - this one I carried around with me for months, just passing time working on it when the opportunity was there.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Graphic 14 Favorite things again … I really wanted to draw a butterfly, so that’s where it started. After that whatever got added ….</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As a native of Western North Carolina - areas near Asheville, NC, I have been influenced over the years by incredibly talented artists and crafters, two of whom were my late mother and father. My parents were mountain people who were influenced by the great depression and WWII. I think people of that era who lived with those influences developed a “crafting” inclination out of necessity. My mom, sewing, fussing endlessly at some creative way to nurture and feed her cherished wild birds, and keeping the household working smoothly; and my dad cobbling together a sled or a plow or a harness or keeping some needed contraption working were all forms of crafting in my view. In their later years, they evolved into bonified, excellent crafters making jewelry, faceting gemstones, doll making, wood carving, and painting to name a few. Early in my adult life, I trained as a mechanical drafter, which paid some bills and taught me a bit about pencils, pens and inks and the mechanics of straight lines and circles, but really provided no opportunity for creativity. I quickly found it to be a dull and unrewarding profession and moved on to other pursuits. I did, however maintain an interest in putting pen to paper. I found myself “doodling” to pass time; unknowingly beginning to understand shapes and forms in nature, shadows, texture, and ways to express those things in black and white. Being somewhat color “challenged” the stark black and white ways of defining shapes and depths seemed a source of fascination for me. That fascination has over the years evolved into what you see here. I am chronically guilty of dabbling at many pursuits, becoming a master of none: pen and ink as is obvious, weaving tiny baskets from horse hair, weaving leather bracelets, refining the work of mother nature to form unique walking staffs, checkering gunstocks and carving in wood, tying trout flies, making knives, tooling leather and photography are a few that have stuck with me; however none have seemingly remained with me so timelessly and intensely as pen and ink work. As I started working with ink, I was understandably focused on the finished product: I wanted to see what my work would look like when complete. Over time it finally occurred to me that it was the process I enjoyed most – not the result. While the end is rewarding, once I quit focusing on finishing and started to simply enjoy the process, the quality of my work, at least in my opinion started to improve. I’ll often start something only to stop at some point to let it “percolate”, often standing it up in a corner, sometimes for months at a time where it will speak to me, giving me some clue as to what to do next. When drawing a “subject” of some sort, it’s obvious what the intent is – to compose something that looks like what it’s supposed to look like. Much of my early work was trying to draw “something”, however I more enjoy simply “doodling” on paper where I don’t have an agenda or a notion of what the end looks like. I usually start near the center of the paper drawing something that forms in my mind. Over time, the complete “work” becomes whatever it becomes. Many of the works you see here are the result of that unplanned process. I hope you enjoy your visit to the website and the work. Feel free to comment via email at 3375art@gmail.com. Inquire if you’re curious and I’ll tell you the significance of “3375”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 2 My “day job” for many years required me to travel. As I drove around in North Carolina I captured photos of churches here and there that seemed unique or for some other reason caught my attention. This is a collection of some of those churches.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 4 A Mail Pouch Barn drawn I think from my imagination. Many of these barns, sheds, and odd buildings were sprinkled about the landscape around one of my favorite places on earth: Roane County, West Virginia. This one always brings fond memories of good times spent with good friends.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 7 I lived in Western North Carolina for many years and never knew Francis Mill existed until my granddaughter Holly featured it as a part of her college studies at Western Carolina University. It still stands today much as you see it here just east of downtown Waynesville, NC, Francis Mill s working grist mill actually producing fresh corn meal for sale on occasions. Holly became attached to the place and often volunteered there for various fund raising events. I worked on this drawing off and on for over three years before I finally decided it was done. It’s incredible how you never notice all the details in something until you try to draw it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 5 Mail Pouch Barns were quite common in West Virginia and several nearby states. Much like “Rock City Barns”, a travelling painter would offer to paint a barn that could be seen from the road in exchange for the advertising; much like a billboard. For many years this advertising means was very common in the mountains. I have drawn several mail pouch and rock city barns, but this one has a bit of a story. I drew if from a photo someone had given me and like many other drawings, I threw this one on the pile of finished works. Sometimes later, my friend Steve sent me a photo via email suggesting I draw it. I sent him back the finished image in a few minutes with the question “Is that fast enough for ya?”. So this one should probably be the “Is that fast enough Mail Pouch Barn”.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 3 Overby’s grabbed my attention from a photo somewhere in my past. I’ve created it here much as the photo showed it. Somewhat like Brown’s it took me back to somewhere from my past.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 6 Rock City Barns were for many years were a common sight in the areas around Western North Carolina. Rock City was a popular tourist attraction located near Chattanooga, TN. From atop Lookout Mountain, a part of the Rock City attraction, one can see (on a very, very, very clear day) seven states</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 8 Driving to various places north of Asheville took me by this church in the Ivy, NC community. Driving by at highway speed, I was always taken by the unique character. I stopped some point, took a quick photo and proceeded to make this pen and ink based on that snapshot. The “new highway” now takes one on a different route, bypassing this unique place. Like so many other things in life, the new ways forget the old ones. Some day I hope to drive the “old road” to see if it’s still standing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 1 Brown’s Supply was a local landmark in the Candler NC area for many years. It still stands today (as of this writing). As a child my father used to take me with him when he would go there to get various necessities for his gardening. He would always visit with people he knew while I occupied myself playing in the big bins of dried beans. Many good memories for myself and others are rooted in and around Brown’s Supply, a local treasure.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Places 9 I was told about the “Lev Barn” by my friend Steve. Below is the story as told by Steve, which really makes the drawing complete: The Lev Barn or Lev House sits in a little Ritchie County, West Virginia hollow “up Spruce Creek, near the head.” It originally sat about 50 yards down the hollow, near the year-round spring that trickled down the hill. But that was when she was actually a house and not a barn. Built sometime in the late 1880s by a feller name of Eleven Riddle. Eleven was one of twelve, so they named him for which one he was - eleven. Name was shortened to “Lev” by the local folks. So, when Lev first built it, it was a house and it was Lev’s house so they named it so. The Lev House American Chestnut, Red Oak, White Oak and Beech trees, harvested from timber stands around the farm, were downed with a cross-cut saw. Then the logs were made into timbers -some almost 30” top to bottom. The logs were hand hewn right where they fell then skidded to the building site using teams of oxen and work horses. That’s a little bit of facts, spun around a lot lore. History you’d call it. Cause history is nothing more than the story told most often. My friend Steve told me the story. I told you the story. You liked the story and, apparently my drawing. So you’ll tell the story to other people when they stop to look at the drawing, and eventually this story becomes history because … it’s the story most often told.</image:caption>
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