She and her mother would often paint watercolors on camping trips.
Her mother also painted, and she was encouraged to take an interest in the arts.
As a child of four, he had fallen from a window ledge while his mother had been painting.
Her mother painted red, white and blue stars at the outer edges of them.
His father had made and fired them, his mother had painted them.
The incident, oddly enough, served to reassure her that Quinton was not as his mother painted him.
It has been 54 years since her mother painted the birthday card, but Ms. Toll remembers.
On the wall behind them, my mother had painted some words in white.
She looked at what had once been the beautiful ornament his mother had painted for him.
Her mother painted; her father was a musician who got into the tabletop giftware business.