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Beautiful and vivid pink poppy painted with pallet knives at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. The edges of the paint creep off the painting surface in a deep impasto style.

I am so lucky! When I was a little girl, before I even went to first grade, my mother took me to art school every week at Mrs. Jones'. Mrs. Jones was a farmers wife, but she was a trained artist. She had an art studio behind the farm house and that is where I learned to paint and draw with my lifelong best friend Clarice, who I called Ann Clarice then. I think Clarice's mom and my mom took turns taking us the "long" 15 minutes or so out to the farm once a week. I was painting in oils when I was 5 and painted, painted painted with Clarice and Mrs. Jones until I was in high school. My work of art: "Fruit, Wine and Sunshine," created when I was five, and which I won a blue ribbon for at the 1960 Jim Wells County Fair is an example of this...