by houstonwine | May 19, 2018 | Drawings
Mary drew this pencil-on-paper portrait of a dancer she saw in magazine. She calls it “Tiny Dancer”. Share...
by houstonwine | May 30, 2016 | Drawings
Mary spent much of the past four months sitting in a hospital room with her husband, Richard LaGarde, who was being treated for acute myeloid leukemia. While waiting for Richard to recover, she sketched him in charcoal and pencil using hot pressed watercolor paper....
by houstonwine | May 28, 2016 | Drawings
Mary’s husband, Richard, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in February of 2016. Mary has been with him through three hospitalizations, three rounds of chemotherapy, and a stem cell transplant. Mary used her time in the hospital to sketch...
by houstonwine | Mar 22, 2014 | Drawings
Mary drew this charcoal sketch of her grandfather, William Austin Nichols, in 2010. Her grandfather was a navy officer who served in both World War II and the Korean conflict.Mary drew this sketch as a present for her grandmother, Florence Elizabeth Nichols, who was...
by houstonwine | Dec 15, 2011 | Drawings
Mary drew this charcoal and pencil sketch in 2009 for her childhood friend Rosie who was battling lung cancer and was in serious need of a guardian angel. The sketch was based on a photo of a Rastafarian on the island of Grenada. Mary called the sketch...
by houstonwine | Dec 15, 2011 | Drawings
Mary drew this sketch at a workshop taught by Tony Ryder in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2007. The sketch was meant to be an under-painting for an oil portrait. The model decided, on an impulse, to wrap a scarf around her head which led Mary to give her sketch the title...
