The Studio

This is my Ivy Lane studio.  The work area measures 10 x 20 feet.  It is just a little too small, but it's in my home so I never have to go out in the cold.

I provide the banjo for visitors so they can play a sensitive, gracious, musical instrument while I work.

I have two custom made improved versions of the classic Barclay easel.  Now that's certainly a lot better

than having a Twin Turbo Supra like my son Matt....

 

This is my model platform.  It's over engineered and weighs too much, but it's a great place to take a nap.

Studio babes.  My model April and my wife Sandra.  The critter-cat is a pest.

     This studio palette illustrates my frugality and general mean-spiritedness.  The outside of a paint volcano may be dried hard, but if I dig down in it with my knife, I can often bring out some still fluid magma.

 

My Fairbanks #9 and my Vega Tu-Ba-Phone banjos

     A vintage Vega banjo followed me home from Intermountain Guitar and Banjo one day.  Sandra threatened to leave home until I reminded her to count her blessings.  It could have been bagpipes or a Lazy Boy recliner.    This past summer I went out to paint at Cascade Springs, my banjo in the back seat of my coupe.  When I returned to the car, somebody had broken in and left a second banjo!