Word: semigloss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world tour so much that he repeated it the following year. Now, as he stood contemplating his small frame house, visions of beautiful ladies in Thailand and Singapore, heaving ships at sea, castles on the Rhine bubbled through his brain. He seized his 3-in. brush and green semigloss enamel and began to paint a small grass hut on one wall. It wasn't bad, considering that he had never painted a picture in his life. By the end of the day, the wall was decorated with glassy-eyed maidens and churning waves, and Sanford Darling had found...
...blue eyes glowing. On his pitched roof, he painted an impressionistic harbor scene with sailboats, white mountains and a shining lighthouse that can be seen two blocks away. He soon discovered that the compressed cardboard backs of old television sets had just the right absorptive quality for the semigloss house paint he favored; he painted scenes on as many of these cardboard backs as he could get his hands on, and mounted them on the outside walls of his house. In his artistic development, Darling went through a fairly long Cezanne period and had an affair with early Grandma Moses...
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