THE PROPERT BEQUEST 1
- THE PROPERT BEQUEST 1 - A pen and black ink drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. It appears in the book, "The Scallion Stone" by William Scott Home".
A long time ago I sat at the kitchen table in the home of my parrish priest, Father Peter Kohanik. I had come there to modify an architect's watercolor painting of the parrish church which was under construction. Father Kohanik wanted me to add a small cross to each side of the front of the building.
I had come with tracing paper and a watercolor set, and after he showed me where he wanted the crosses to appear on the building, and the size of each cross, I placed tracing paper over the architect's painting and lightly sketched in a cross on one side of the building on the tracing paper. I made changes to the sketch several times according to Father Kohanik's comments, until he was satisfied that the cross and the frame he wanted around it was to his liking. It took me about an hour to paint both crosses on the architects painting and when I was done he seemed pleased with the result. And so we sat and had coffee and cake and chatted for a while before I left. Eventually I saw that those two crosses had been etched into the front face of the church where Father Kohanik wanted them.
I don't remember how it came about that he asked me to do that artwork, someone must have recommended me, probably my wife. Over the years she has volunteered my artistic services several times, sometimes to my annoyance, but she has a special way of asking me . . . So I end up doing it.
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