Woodworking Women
Woodworking women is an on-going project portraying recently incaracerated women working to restore wood furniture as parts of a reentry into society program. These are drawings of the women while working in the shop.
Leukemia
“Four Colors of Leukemia” was accepted into the juried Tulsa Invitational Gallery where it was purchased by the Good Samaritan Growth Center in Bartleville, Oklahoma as an inspirational piece for its new Cancer Research Center. The painting was completed using only four colors of paint, yellow, two reds and blue (plus white) to represent four stages of the disease. The center portrait shows a healthy and happy sixteen year old. The upper right-hand portrait shows her trying on a wig after her hair fell out. In the left-hand portrait the disease and wig have become a burden, a sadness not even a hat could hide. Acceptance of her baldness, of her hospitalization and of leukemia is shown in the lower-right hand portrait. A copy of “Four Colors of Leukemia” also hangs on the wall of 4 Henson Tower at the Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
This spirited sixteen year old defied leukemia and the doctor’s orders to dance and celebrate at her first highschool prom.
Old Masters Study
