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To the Showers. If packing, is no problem, or if the family requires more comfort while in the throes of facing the wilderness, get a portable gas stove, grub box, cots, air mattresses, an air pump for the mattresses (one model gets its puffs from the automobile exhaust pipe), charcoal...
If he has more money to spend, the camper can look over the variety of mobile campsites in the showrooms. Volkswagen's Camper comes fitted with bunks and a sophisticated assortment of kitchen equipment, sells for $2,973 (plus taxes and shipping); Chevrolet has a similar model, and both...
Late in the afternoons, Painter made the martinis (while Conrad "held the vermouth a bit downwind"). With Painter playing the harmonica and Conrad the guitar, the children sang till suppertime and then climbed into their sleeping bags. On other days, the Painters and Conrads walked among the ponderosa pine and...
The Loner. Son of a painter, Crivelli studied under the Paduan master Francesco Squarcione, who also taught Andrea Mantegna. Squarcione was a perfectionist who made his pupils spend day after day copying veined marble and Roman bronzes, the more intricate the better. Their paintings were fastidious, and their surfaces glowed...
A Bigger Brush. So that his students would not worry too much about detail and thus lose the vision of the canvas as a whole, he encouraged them to paint with a palette knife in quick, broad strokes. "Swing a bigger brush. Have enthusiasm," he said. With most students he...