Robert Thome made his way around the painting class at Alvarado Hospital on Friday afternoon in his signature black gaucho hat, long dark braid and white dress shirt.
Stopping his motorized wheelchair at each student’s desk, he coached and encouraged as they created their own version of his painting of a cherry tree branch in bloom.
“That’s right,” he told one student as she added a stroke of brown to the branch taking form on her canvas. “Now start to add flowers wherever it feels right to you. This is your interpretation. Every artist has their own style.”
Robert Thome is an inspiration. He said to just copy what you see. I said I was a good copy artist. He said, from there, you can paint your dreams like Salvador Dali. Wow!
My painting is on the left and his that I'm copying from is on the right.
