Starlight - Episode 23

Never give up as an improving artist. It took three tries to get this oil portrait right of granddaughter Starlight. The video demonstrates the success along with the failures. The lesson for those who wish to dabble in art -- release the inner child and get rid of the inner critic.

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 After writing two books and more than 3 million words as a reporter, I’m seeking another way to share stories. My painting of Martin Luther King Jr. is an example, completed days after Linda and I stood at the hotel window where King was assassinated 50 years earlier. (Available: 16x20 oil on gallery-wrap canvas and museum-quality giclee canvas print.)

“As a reporter, I sought to change the world. As an artist, this beautiful world is changing me.” — Roger Snell

"Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and color, peace and hope will keep them company to the end of the day." -- Winston Churchill

"May it please the Lord, Light of all things, To show me the way, So that I may paint Light worthily." -- Found on a scrap of paper in Leonardo Da Vinci's room, as posted by artist Laurel Hart.

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My first book was about ace pitcher Charlie Root and the 1929 Chicago Cubs. It all started five doors down from my childhood home when I found my own personal Moonlight Graham.

"Love, Grandpa" is a memoir and a Christian non-fiction account of what happened when I reached death's door in April 2017.

(Full details here)

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