A little more than two long blocks from my home is the market where I do most of my shopping, sometimes twice a week. Half the distance there is an Art school. Painting, illustration, design and such things are their stock and trade. Closer to the start of Folksizhome.com I approached a number of students to engage them in my project. I must have appeared like a crooked old witch inviting them into my cottage for limitless candy. I even put a notice on the bulletin board by the elevator there, but no doubt having read Hansel & Gretel, none of those children came close.

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Then one evening after giving up on this Art school, there was a guy sitting on a sidewalk bench in front of the school. Before this guy on the bench and I exchanged one word I knew he was the one. I tendered an introductory hello and he invited me to sit. It happened just like that.

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In not too much time, we set off down a Dark and Crimson Alley and completed that piece in comfortable measured intervals. I love the work he produced for Alley, particularly the two paintings.

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He also created illustrations for “Guide to New York,” however those are in print and not seen on the site. If you would like a copy, get in touch. For what it’s worth, they are signed.

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Now he is engaged in a project of his own. The subject of that suite is horses. The samples we show you here are from that group. I think they are brilliant. Someone close to me described them as “full of life and motion.”

 

I am most fortunate to have made his acquaintance. I imagine some gratitude should be directed at cosmic forces. There, I said it. My best advice to myself here is to quit this page now and think of something new to engage him.