ZOMG, Steve has his own Wikipedia page. Not that I should be shocked, Steve is a museum-worthy artist, certainly. I make mention of this because I was explaining to a lovely young person that Steve helped me immensely when I was floundering around and in my twenties and thirties, just by being encouraging and kind. I hope to pay it forward.
And it’s fun to see images of paintings I remember being painted! In his basement in Alexandria.
I also remember a yellow sticky of cowboy curses (darn! shucks!) stuck to his big old oak easel. His youngest, Zara, was very small, and those were the nicer versions he was supposed to use instead of the usual variety. And a story about Frank Frazetta, who taught him that whatever paints you use, do not stint on good brushes. Things like that.
He was very kind about my awful first paintings. Bless you, Steve.
Go see his lovely web site: http://www.stephenhickman.com/
