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Senter Drug Store Dr. Pepper sign...has been a downtown Fulton fixture for as long as I can remember...

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Old farm equipment "resting" by the Comer Milling, Feed and Seed store in Fulton...I especially enjoy the old signs...

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It's time to write, paint, draw, think, dream...a favorite Waterman fountain pen...

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Garden of the imagination...ink on paper...

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One of my favorite photos...made this past spring with my 50mm f1.8 "Nifty-Fifty" lens...I'm ready for some warmer weather...

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Pop-art image of my robot pencil sharpener...

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A view from the art room...

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I've been interested in grunge/street art for the past year or so...this painting is one in a series that combines stencil techniques with the general idea of decay in the background...I like the emotional charge this technique produces...

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Old Royal Crown Cola thermometer on my storage barn...the temperature is finally on the way up...

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A sampling from my "Tootsie Toy" car collection...the two up front were fished out of the bottom of the Thornton toy chest...I remember playing with them...the larger cars were a present from my brother...we once played and used our imaginations...long before PS3 days...

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Pointillism ink Rose...too many dots to count!

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Lucky...our last Tennessee cat...he wandered up as a stay...was run over by a car and Coleen and the kids took him to the vet while I was out of town...Have you ever paid for a cat hip replacement???...I named him Lucky because he's fortunate that I wasn't home that day!!!

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Sunset at the boat ramp at the Whitten Center in Fulton...I can still see "sunspots" when I look at this photo...learned a valuable lesson...don't point a zoom lens directly toward the sun...

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Antique Orange Crush and Pepsi bottle...they were both bottled in Tupelo...and have been drawn in countless still life arrangements by my students..."firewater..."

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Happy Valentine's Day!!!

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A recent "value" collage created with a range of neutral papers...I made this as a classroom visual aid to the current project my Gifted students are working on...it always amazes me how much detail can be created when you focus only on contrasting light and dark shapes in a design...the pitcher shaped object is a stove top expresso maker...very common in Europe...the cup a favorite I bought on vacation at Sea Grove beach...

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Fantasy Garden design...complete with paisley sky and spirals...original is 18"x24"...inked with a Sharpie marker...

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The "New" Daisy Theater on Beale Street in Memphis...shot taken while waiting in line to see Forever and Never open for Mayday Parade...it was a great show...

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Cafe window in downtown Oxford...holds the promise of good things to eat...

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Signage from downtown Fulton...

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Another Paisley watercolor study...at the time I started painting this series you could barely find a paisley on anything...now they are everywhere...

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Sunrise reflection in the surf at Folly Beach...

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Mr. Bill appeared one day last year in my art classroom... he apparently was a gift...my students enjoy hiding him in odd places...I enjoy talking pictures of his adventures...he's being held by a cast tape sculpture...who knows where he might be tomorrow...

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Painting study of Maggie...

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Sea shells collected at Folly Beach...

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"Dr. Pepper" sign on my barn...

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"Vital Parts" shoe advertisement found on a window of the old A.J. Mattox department store in downtown Fulton..."the leather is there in every pair..."