Portfolio - Painting Stories
from Mark & Blanche Rickert. This is the picture found by chance. This looks like it was painted on the back of gift box.
from Jill Rickert Davidson.
from Marty Lower. Painted on back of Foremost Vanilla Ice Cream box.
from Glynis Rickert Schaefer
from Brenda Rickert Randall. A Foremost Butter Almond Ice Cream box.
from Christine Lambert. Painted on Amwell Beautiful Stocking box.
from Jill Rickert Davidson. This corm flakes box looks like it was cut to size.
from Christian Lambert Young
One time Emma was given a paint-by-number picture to work on. The story is that after she was finished, she didn't want to waste the paint so she used it to paint her own picture.
After Emma sold the farm and went to live with Frannie Kaufman, she began saving card board of all kinds. Blanche Rickert would go to junk shops and collect old picture frames for Emma to use. Emma would cut her cardboards to fit the frames and then create her paintings.
Dorothy Ruark Engstrom shared the story that Emma wanted to learn to paint better and she talked with "Aunt Jessie Mallot", a well-known artisit in the Hilltown area. Aunt Jessie gave her some painting tips and how to do shadows and such.
Here are a few examples of the backs of the paintings. Emma used cereal boxes, ice cream containers and gift boxes as her canvas.
Phyllis Barr Smallridge Minich recalls the paint tubes for some reason. She painted from photos. Some were from Aunt Fern while in Africa.