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Ellis Family Page Acrylic Paintings
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Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology ("MAC")
The final painting I'll show you is a quite typical scene from the foothills of the Pacific Northwest around Mt. Reineer. Merry and I once hiked in an area much like this one. I painted it in 1994 for the Lechevallier family who live in France (see our account of our trips with them). It was a small way to say thanks for all that they did for our family.
So, I guess that I can now say that I have paintings hanging in Paris! (Well... it sounds good anyhow...) During our 1995 trip to France, we took my acrylic paints. While we were with the Lechevallier family, I actually painted three pictures.
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6.
Paintings
"Hanging in Paris"
I had
the painting framed originally in a simple oak frame and
Dominique (shown above holding it) had it reframed in this, much nicer,
pale green frame.
The
first was of a commercial barge waiting to go through a lock ahead of
us. It was painted on our wonderful holiday as we sailed through the
canals of Alsace Lorraine (see 
The
other two paintings were actually two copies of the same thing. I
painted a silhouette of the famous Mont St. Michel against a
brilliant sunset. I got the dramatic picture from a French
magazine. We had planned to keep the picture but the family liked it
so much that we wanted to give it to them. I finally solved the
little dilemma by doing a second painting of the same picture. We
gave one copy to Dominique's very sweet mother, who we all called Mame.
She's a gem. Here's a photo of Mame holding
the unframed painting. The bright spots in the sky are from the sun
that was shining through the leaves of a tree. But, you get the
idea....