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to fail, she switched from painting with a needle and thread to using a brush and acrylics. Works from this creative stage also are displayed in her cottage. They, too, feature bright, bold colors that radiate her optimistic outlook.
When her vision deteriorated further, Mrs. Lucas left off painting. A recent cataract operation improved her eyes and so, to keep herself busy, she decided to try water colors. “I fell in love with them. You have to be quick to work with water colors and I’ve always been quick.”
She’s been painting in water colors for just a year. Until her "discovery” by Mary Schmuaker a few months ago, Mrs. Lucas had never sold one of her pictures, only given them as presents to friends.
One of those old friends told Mary Schumaker about Huntly’s unknown artist and brought Mrs. Lucas along with some of her paintings for a visit to the Corn Crib Gallery. Warning her guests that any work proposed for exhibit first needed approval from a three-member board, Mary viewed the water colors and snapped them right up to hang in the gallery. Asked what happened to the board approval, she admitted it was a tiny fib to give her an excuse in case Mrs. Lucas’ water colors turned out to be the typical amateur spat
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