James

 
Watercolor

Horse of a Different Coloration

 
Colored Pencils on Gray Paper

A Pennsylvania Farm

Pencil Drawing
 
I drew this farm as I sat in the backyard of a house Rose and Frank Magnone's used to own in Washington, Pennsylvania. My wife Carol and I were visiting her wonderful Aunt Rose and Uncle Frank.

Pa's Barn and Paris Mountain

Watercolor

I painted this scene years ago and spent many peaceful times in the hallway of this barn that affords a view of Paris Mountain near Greenville, S.C. This barn is located in the northern section of Greenville County, S.C., in the Mountain View Community.

My grandfather, Carl Clyde Crain, owned this barn when I was a boy. His father, "Ben," owned it before my grandfather, whom I called "Pa," bought it. I've watched Pa milk cows in this hallway. One evening as he "put up" one of his mules in a barn stall for the night, the mule kicked as he entered his stall. I heard Pa say, "I've got to cut down on his corn."

Pa and Ma sold milk and butter to a few folk in Greenville, S.C., and I loved to ride with them on Saturday mornings on their "milk and butter route." Their handful of "city folk" customers liked "real milk and butter, right from the cow." Ma made a little money to spend at Woolworth's or at a bakery located on Greenville's north side. At that bakery, which featured "Bost" products, one could buy (to borrow a phrase from songwriter Johnny Cash) "those day-old cakes mighty cheaply."

Sheep

 
Watercolor

Dan Coggins

 
Watercolor 

(Dan Coggins lived near my paternal grandmother, Lillian Parker Crain. Dan is the grandfather of Bill Leister of South Carolina.)  

Family Farm

Pencil Drawing

Georgia Barn

 
Watercolor (with use of some white coloed pencil)

Leaning Barn

 
Watercolor

The Deer - Psalm 42:1

 
Colored Pencils on Colored Paper