Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 9 · column 3 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
dium was watercolors. She taught herself to paint. It was not something she had studied specifically in college. Watercolors were safe, just in case the children got into them, she decided. Now she sometimes paints in acrylics, but the majority of her paintings are still done in watercolor.
While the children were small, Mrs. Welch also did some freelance work in graphic design. She was accepted into a Virginia Museum show for graphic designers and began doing craft shows in Virginia Beach, Petersburg, Norfolk, Williamsburg, and Richmond. She started out doing three or four shows annually, and gradually added more shows as the children grew.
Today she spends approximately twenty weekends selling her work at craft shows. The next one she plans to participate in is the Maryland Christmas Show at the Frederick Fairgrounds in Frederick November 26-28 and December 3-5. “I always work up to the last minute before a show,” says Mrs. Welch. She normally spends most of the spring and summer photographing and painting all the time, because the fall is the busiest season for shows.
Working in a 14 by 25 foot studio with tremendous views because she wouldn’t want to miss that perfect moment for a photograph, Mrs. Welch paints the scenes she loves: cows, “Holsteins are the best,” she says, foxes, quail, foxhunting, old barns apd stone structures.
One of the most successful of her paintings is Holstein .35. Cheri Woodard of Faith Mountain Company in Sperryville saw a print of
89.2%