Some of you may have noticed that I use the "Coin Chat" forum to announce some of our members' birthdays. Well, I'd also like to use this forum for a very special and personal announcement for myself. Today, January 2, would have been my Mom's 100th birthday. R.I.P. Mom! If any of you reading this would like to add a personal note of remembrance for one of your loved ones, please feel free to do so.
RIP Chris's mom. I miss my mother constantly, you know, you think to yourself, "I'll have to ask mom about that." only to realize she is gone. Thanks for the post Chris.
Your mom was a member of “The Greatest Generation.” They were awesome folks! My mom’s 100th birthday would have been on May 6, 2020.
They sure were. They survived the Great Depression, fought WWII and then built America into a superpower. I am in awe of my great grandparents and grandparents and think of them often during these trying times.
Today would have been my wife's 69th birthday and tomorrow would have been Mom's 92nd. I miss them both. Just hasn't been the holidays without them.
Mom was an artist for about 75 years. Pen & Ink circa 1931 My daughter, 1992 Pen & Ink circa 1990 Native American Girl circa 2000
Mom did sell, but she wasn't in it for the money. She also did her own framing to include cutting the mat board and glass, and all of her artist friends came to her for these services because she charged much less than a typical store. Mom was a member of the Wicomico Art League (MD), a founding member of the Pine Island Art League (FL), a member of the Cape Coral Art League (FL), the Ft. Myers Art League (FL), the Lee County Alliance of the Arts (FL) and the American Pen Women's Association (US). NOTE: Acceptance in the APWA requires nomination by a current member as well as earning First Place in a juried show.
my mother was born Oct 16, 1943, she passed away at the age of 49 on Nov 17, 1992 My mother was a single mom my dad died in 1983 in a car wreck she was raising two kids on a high school teachers pay, but she loved to help kids learn, and when she was in college she made two roman plaster heads male and female this photo was taken when she was a teacher in the late 1980s and the male roman plaster head my mom made in college
Mom is almost 91. Dad died 5 months ago. She's still driving the tractor around their ranch, hawling hay out to the herd and various other chores. Carries a rifle in case she runs across the wild boars that destroy the pasture. She's killed quite a few over the years. She's gonna out live us all. God bless moms.
Unfortunately, I lost most of the photos on my old computer. I do have two more you may have already seen. Mom painted this acrylic which she hung in my bathroom. Whenever she showed a friend through the house for the first time, she would show them the painting making sure that she told them it was my bathroom. Later on, she sold it to a man for $500, so she painted it again from her photos, and hung the duplicate, where else, in my bathroom. Nude, circa 1998 Mom painted this and donated it to a day care center in Cape Coral. Pen, ink & watercolor, circa 2000
Bet you have artistic talent handed down from mom, I know I do. Love pen & Ink and I use watercolor washes on mine.
Nah! I took mechanical drawing & drafting all through junior high & high school, and when AutoCAD came along, I took courses for it at the local tech school. I can look at a drawing and tell if it is scaled properly; I can look at a circle and tell you if it is out of round; I can even tell you if a picture hanging on the wall is crooked by as little as one-eighth of an inch, but if you ask me to paint portraits, you'll have to settle for "stick people". Mom was good in all mediums....watercolor, pastel, acrylic, oil, pen & ink, egg tempera, batik. There isn't anything she hadn't tried, even 3-D paintings using as many as seven layers of glass. She has paintings on just about every continent, but she is not well-known.
