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A Little about Us
Through this web site, Donna and I wish to share with you our talents in art and poetry. We were married in 1977 and have a combined family of five children and six grandchildren and live in colorful Colorado. I am retired from a 34 year career in machining and am looking forward to pursuing many other interests. Donna keeps our home a beautiful and welcome place to live while enjoying her garden and always keeping up on her reading.
I have been painting in oils and acrylics for only about 10 years now but Donna has been writing her poetry for much longer. I haven't had any formal instruction or study and consider myself to be "self-taught". As yet I have not stayed with any particular painting style but I enjoy painting landscapes, animals, birds, and florals. I tend to paint with a realistic touch, as I am very impressed by those who can paint something to the point of looking absolutely true to life or photographic, and to me that takes an extremely talented person.
Recently I started persuing a new interest in wood turning. I joined a local organization of the AAW (American Association of Woodturners), of which I am currently the club Vise President. I had always worked with wood as this was passed down to me through my father and grandfather who were carpenters and cabinet makers. I inherited my grandfathers old lathe which I reconditioned and make use of daily. I currently have my woodturnings for sale at Pack Rat Junction in Pueblo West, Colorado and also through eBay that you can view in my woodcrafts gallery.
Donna has a natural God-given talent for creating her very unique poems. She expresses her interpretations of how she sees her family or her life around her through her poetry because of her strong belief in a loving God whom she so selflessly confesses to daily.
We have combined our talents to produce an "Art & Poetry Card" to display on your refrigerator or wherever you wish. You can view and print out the card in the Poetry Corner and also get information on where to acquire the magnetic transparent frames to display your poetry cards.
We hope that everyone who browses through our site will find something to their liking. The poetic minded will find a place to view or print out poems to their taste. The children can find a corner to print out delightfully fun colorbook images and puzzles. The art critics may find a place to peruse a gallery and hopefully will give me feedback of encouragement or instruction.
The wood turners and carvers can find my world of "creating art with woods" at my other web site WoodArtByDan.com .
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