An Artist's Wife

The simple paper mate pen, black ink only. That is what Clancy uses to create his drawings. Sometimes charcoal or pencil, but for the most part his faithful black Paper Mate. I have often thought about writing to the Paper Mate pen company to tell them about my husband and the hours I have spent with the sound of the scratching of his Paper Mate as he draws. To let them know how loyal he is to his Paper Mates, and see if maybe they will send me a box or two for free. I remember the first drawing he had done for us. It was before he lived with Bailey and I, he was over visiting and left a note for us to find later. Leaving a note with a drawing was a simple gesture for him, he always was drawing and doodling, he took it for granted. But for us it was amazing when we found it, we named her Boo. Boo was up on our fridge for a long time, she became a entity in our home. We would look at the drawing and think up stories, did she wear that expression because she was frightened? If she was wh...

We were married a week ago tomorrow. For the wedding Terri's sister suggested we give each guest a gift, maybe a small painting? We thought it was a great idea. Initially when she made this suggestion I envisioned one of those 2x2 pre-made canvasses with him doing a small landscape design. He could accomplished that in one sitting, two at most. In the end the project took about five sittings and was a lot more fun then either of us could of known. We both had a lot of fun working on it. Is it any wonder I married this man, our world is so much fun. We were going to be married at City Hall, we had it booked, even paid for it. But, in the end we had a Hindu ceremony surrounded by 50 of the people we share our world with. A good friend of Terri's father married us. We did not know much about the customs and rituals involved in a Hindu ceremony, so we began to do some research and Terri began to sketch Ganesha's. And he thought it would be fun to make the paintings for the gues...