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“You know, I really like it — those kids.” A bit of a sentimentalist, a softie a heart, Mr. Day paints for his children.
“I give a painting to each child at Christmas,” he said with a wave of his hand.
“They can hang it on their wall or whatever," he said.
Self-taught, self-styled, self-directed, Mr. Day creates spectacular watercolors.
It may be a spring countryside or a meadow of flowers or a church seen on the road, but the details are perfect and the colors vivid and bright.
The colors are not soft and filled with pastel shades but bold and green and alive like the countryside he captures.
He won an award for a watercolor of flowers several years ago after a showing at Middle Street Gallery.
When he first started painting, he did a show in Maryland.
His painting was a hobby, begun 1971 when he began working as an alcoholism counselor at a rehabilitation center in D.C.
“I had more time to spend then,” he said, adding now, he may spend 10 hours to 10 times that amount annually on his work.
“I’m modest. I’m not that good,” he said with a shy smile.
“I don’t work at it. It’s just for my children,” he said, adding though one has found its way to the Rappahannock County Courthouse, behind Beverly Atkins’ desk.
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