Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artist. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2009

No. 75



"You gotta keep moving or they'll bury me."
Glenn “Buddy” Shales still has it in him to smile. This man of many talents has not lost his up and up. Seven years ago Buddy was forced to eat through a tube shortly after learning he had cancer. He has forgotten how foodstuffs taste. He copes by tending to his garden, which he calls his cathedral, spending time with his grandchildren and painting when it’s not scorching out. “Like I said, I don’t buy nothing” so he uses house paint and donated cardboard to create his pieces. “They take me 15 minutes and I am no artist, that’s why I sign them the roofer.”


Tuesday, June 23, 2009

No. 72






Art and stuff. These are a few images made while hanging out with a polymer clay artisan, Juli McCarthy, during an assignment for the Courier-News. Juli features her creations at the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha, WI from July through September.