If you have a favorite barn, farm, house, or garden sheds painting, pen and ink illustration drawing or picture you do not see here send me a photo or pictures via email or postal mail and I will paint it for you. Watercolor commission paintings, pen and ink drawings, and limited prints of rural country barn paintings in Georgia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and the Southwest. The paintings were painted with the highest quality Winsor and Newton paint. The limited edition prints are on high quality 80 pound raised stipple stock acid free paper,will be signed and numbered by the artist and come with a certificate of authenticity.

London readers of Arts & Crafts who are studying drawing in pen and ink for illustration should not miss the present opportunity of studying at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers’ Exhibition, at the New Gallery, in Regent-street, the original drawings by Vierge of some of his illustrations to “Pablo di Segovia.” They will especially find it interesting, we think, to compare the finished drawing there of the incident in the Barber’s Shop with the artist’s first conception of the scene, which we reproduce on the opposite page. In several points of detail it will be noticed that these two drawings differ, but in the large and small paper editions of the book the variations in this same illustration are much greater.

Indeed the composition is quite different. In the small paper edition the customer’s face is hidden by the extension of the arms of the barber who is shaving him, the backs of both men being turned to the spectator. The young rascal behind the chair has already picked the customer’s pocket, and is handing the wallet to a woman who stoops at the half-opened door to receive it, the door being to the kit of the picture, instead of to the right, as in the original chawing.