Joan McDermott:
CLASS OF 1959
Fairborn High SchoolClass of 1959
Fairborn, OH
Joan's Story
Life
My husband Dennis (retired Navy)and I live in NW Florida. We were breeding parrots and sold bird related items on the internet, until we had to give up the business due to my health. It became impossible to maintain 100 parrots properly, so we had to place all of our breeders with friends/breeders who could care for them properly. We still have a few pets, a Blue & Gold & Scarlet Macaw, a pair of African Greys, two Cockatoos (one Umbrella and a Lessor Sulfur Crested, and a Black cap Conure, which is really still to many to care for the way I would like to.
I still paint, but can no longer use oils, due to carting oxygen around with me, so I work in watercolor, acrylic, pastel and scratch board. I have...Expand for more
lots of models to work from and paint bird pictures, make coffee cups T-shirts and other items. In the last few years I began working with Polymer Clay and sculpt lots of figures, characters, etc., and make jewelry. I have recently learned to do wire wrapping on gems, stones and cabachions of verious types.
When you are forced to use a wheel chair a lot of the time and can not "work" you find other ways to keep yourself busy and try to make a little money so you can buy more materials to keep making things. Just recently we have purchased an embrodery maching and I am teaching myself how to digitize artwork and photographs, so I can do embrodery work.
If you want to talk or just say Hi drop me an email.
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