I recently found this painting, saved with several others, created sometime in the 1980s or possibly late 70s. I don’t remember much about this, but it appears to be tempera and is one of only a few of my paintings in this group not made on white paper. The blue paper is a fading blue stationery sheet.

As many of us, I remember enjoying painting with tempera paints in elementary school. I would have purchased this paint in a five and dime or even a drug store. Stores like Woolworth’s, Kresge’s or McCrory’s in downtown Baltimore and, much earlier, Dacks in the Park Lane Shopping Center in Northwest Baltimore, were favorite places for me to visit. I always enjoyed paper and art supplies.