A warm welcome to our world Chuck.

I am happy to hear that you already have friends and not alone in the world!

Chuck, your paintings are great! You are really privileged to have them around!!

Thanks Chuck. I was just looking at the other pieces that you have done - all are amazing. Well done!! Thanks for the lesson on scratch art :)

So much for retirement! I'm sure you enjoy what you're doing though. Good for you!

Thanks Chuck for the info on the color in your work.    About a 100 years back in high school, I did a scratch board of a girl with a guitar that I go an award for, but that was about all I knew about them.   Were you at the Las Cruces Convention Center a couple months back for the Art Show?  If so, I stopped and commented on your art...should have asked then, and got to know you!

  I've been thinking about doing something with that roadrunner too!  Thanks for sharing all of you art, love all of the dogs, but my very favorite is the giraffes!

Hi Chuck, nice to here from you, my Trout was lovely it's my next favourite fish after sea bass.  Glad you enjoyed your trip to Bath it's a great little city  and I love living on it's doorstep.  Thanks for your lovely comments,  I think your scratch work is pretty amazing, I wouldn't even know where to begin.  Best wishes Polly :-}}

Chuck, just been looking through all your artwork, you really are the king of scratch! it's a great show! :-}}}

Chuck, Good luck on the arts and crafts show today and have a great, safe 4th!

Sounds like you did pretty well for yourself! You said you need the rain, are you in California? I live on Cape Cod and, we're okay in the rain department; but, it's a bit warmer than usual for us. How did you get into scratch art? You must love animals, it shows in your work!

Wow--50 years!  That's wonderful!  I love the cool weather (I adore fall and winter on the Cape--and not just because the tourists all go home). Of course, last winter we had record snowfall here in Massachusetts. For one storm we had to climb out a window because the snow was so high we couldn't open the door!  What a nice story about how you were introduced to scratch art. It's amazing how small the world seems sometimes!

Your trip to England sounds fantastic! So your wife's family were pilgrims!  We like our pilgrims around here! My family are relative newcomers, most of my ancestors came over during the Irish potato famine.  Today is way to hot here!

At the risk of sounding cliche, America really is a melting pot! My maternal grandmother was born in Frankfurt, Germany and her family emigrated here when she was 2. I remember her telling me that the other kid's made fun of them during WWI because they had German accents. By WWII, her oldest son was a navigator on planes that flew missions over Germany. All my other relatives come from either County Clare or County Mayo in Ireland.  And I know I ended my last post this way...it's way too hot here--we're not used to this kind of heat on the Cape!

You're welcome and me too!

Hi Chuck!  Thanks for the note!  Will love to see your watercolors, but you truly are the scratch board master!  Yes we do have some neat buildings here in Las Cruces!  I just love the southwestern architecture.  Right now trying to paint an old building I photographed in Organ, the old mining town.  Doing it in acrylics...it is taking me forever.  Mainly I think because I have to keep remixing paint, it dries so fast.  How long do your scratch boards take, say the last one?  LOTS of detail!

I would too Chuck.

Chuck, it's raining and so dark here that it looks like 2:40 AM instead of 2:40 PM, so I appreciate you sending sun and warmth!  I might be one of those sun birds...planning a winter road/painting trip but I haven't finalized the details. 

My hubby was an engineer for 13 years, and then switched to police officer 2 years ago.  His sgt. has a new joke of the day for roll call at 3:00AM! Very few are funny enough to make it back to me ; ). 

He was the other kind of engineer--the design kind ; )

Merry Christmas, Santa!

 Friends for sure!  Thanks :)

Dear Chuck,

You for sure have a gift what a wonderful thing. You are amazingly talented!

I also just discovered Painting less than one year ago and I just turned 49. So I am excited like you and planning to do this til the end of day :) So far I have done Acrylics , mainly Oil Paintings and Pencil and Charcoal. I like to do a lot of textured Painting with my Palette knife.  

Thanks for the detailed info regarding Scratch Art I am really intrigued and want to try it. I ll let you know how it goes !

Best wishes,

Mireille