Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 14:18:11 -0400
Reply-To: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Jim's paintings
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That sounds great. I think most of us end up with a collection of bus items. I’ve been giving most of mine away for raffle items at our VW event fund raiser. But, their are a few I have not let go of yet.
I have a Mosaic of a hippie bus made by a talented student from the high school where I retired from. And a Franklin mint exact scale model of a 67 beetle.
But even these I’m starting to get ready to let go of as I just like hanging out with the real vans. I find the beetle model just makes me want to have a real beetle! !
There are some very nice bus items out there.
Believe it or not I’m still partial to very nice bus T shirts.
A friend just gave me one I’ve wanted for a long time. The one that says something like… What would Jesus drive? Picture of a old bus, then It says, Humble, economical, and room for 12.
I have only found one shirt with a vanagon on it. Sadly, I managed this week to stain it just before a trip with a few drops of oil. But, then again, that seems appropriate.
Eric Caron
> On Aug 1, 2022, at 1:50 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> I do have a painting of a white Vanagon, but I didn't paint it. It was a
> going-away gift from a non-profit I used to manage. One of the board found
> a woman who custom-paints gourds as presentation gifts, and they sent her
> pictures of my Westy to go from. She got the color a little wrong but I
> still love the thing. You can see it in the background on my felder.studio
> website, up high on a shelf behind me.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 12:36 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Oh so that’s what he’s been doing!
>>
>> Sneaky guy :-)
>>
>> Wasn’t a vanagon still life was it?
>>
>> Ab
>>
>>> On Aug 1, 2022, at 10:34 AM, Eric Caron <ericcaron96@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yesterday My wife glanced in my FB feed to get to our event group and
>> noticed a painting by Jim Felder. She thought it was amazing. First, a
>> beautiful picture and then she realized it was a painting.
>>>
>>> Let me know when you start sculpting! In the meantime any of those
>> landscapes include a White Westfalia?
>>>
>>> Eric Caron
>>
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