Vern Scharf Paintings from Santa Cruz, California

The Palo Alto is a real landmark. Every winter, a little more crumbles off. Now when the waves come in, the underwater compartments build up pressure and blow seawater out of a decktop hatch in a plume like a passing whale. Many locals remember their parents happy times aboard this ship. A WW I ship originally designed to be manufactured out of poured concrete which would actually float (!) but luckily wasn’t needed and was sold to the highest bidders, a Nevada company that remarkably got...

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Born in the artist colony of NoHo, back when it was just North Hollywood, my Mom gave me a John Gnagy Learn To Draw book and I was off and running, drawing snowy mailboxes, dogs, you name it. I flunked Spanish 1 three times because I was busy illustrating the boring textbook, which they would take away from me at the end of every semester. Then I went to Art Center College of Design where they made you draw everything (and sharpen your own pencils). After graduating, I got a job in a big ad agency coming up with, and drawing storyboards on how to sell cat food. A Walter Foster Learn To Draw Book taught me how to draw cats after I got the job (two ice cream cones on top of a baseball to start). I like working on smaller canvases because they take up less...

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Santa Cruz, CA 95062
United States