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![]() Portrait oil on board, 29.5" x 19.5" | ![]() My mom, 2021 Cinnamon Beach, FL. Prep work for painting study. | ![]() Dad's Highschool graduation photo. Probably 1947. He really did have that hair! |
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![]() Marty Manker Smith, probably at the time she interned at NY Hospital after college. | ![]() Ruth Deobler Manker, grandma in her youth. | ![]() Canna Lily,Pan Pastel, 24x36 |
![]() I had a desire to make art again but I wanted to try something different. I've always loved printmaking and felt this image was easily within that style. Then I fell into centuries of images describing Korea's adoration of the Tiger. I fell in love with this story. I hope this will be only the first I transcribe. | ![]() This is a detail of The Tiger and The Magpie folk painting. Here you can see the Magpies, the Cicada, and the Magic Mushrooms in the three sacred mountains. | ![]() Tiger Face, pastel pencil on Pastelmat paper. 9.5" x 12" |
![]() 38" x 50" Arches, Conte Stick Private Collection Portland, Oregon | ![]() 38" x 50" Conte Stick Private Collection Portland Oregon | ![]() 48" x 60" B & W Study in Graphite, Conte, Ink and Oil |
![]() 48" x 60" Arches Paper, Ink, Conte, Graphite. Sold to Exxon Corporation, NY, NY. | ![]() 48" x 60" Graphite, Conte on Arches Paper Private Collection This drawing tells the story of my own adoption, the laws that keep us all apart, and the rights adoptees still don't have to know their origins. All people should have a right to know their medical history and children should be able to know whom they came from at a certain age. I was blessed to be raised by the people who adopted me, many aren't so fortunate. | ![]() 36" x 27" Printing Ink Private Collection Portland, OR |
![]() 48" x 60" Caran D'ache | ![]() 22" x 15" Walnut Hand Carving. Private Collection, Santa Barbara, CA. | ![]() 18" Head Private Collection, PA. |
![]() 18" Private Collection, Willow Grove, PA. | ![]() Plaster, 18" Private Collection Florida | ![]() Plaster, 18" Private Collection Florida |
![]() A Work In Progress Acrylic on engraving | ![]() A nice big Pumpkin | ![]() Just fun. Shhhh! |
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