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The Kings Mountain Herald
February 19, 2004
ANDIE BRYMER / HERALD
Joyce Posey painted these apple tree murals in her dining room. Her mother made
the ceramic apples in the bowl on the table.
Posey
pretties
home with paint
BY ANDIE L. BRYMER
Staff Writer
Sit still too long at Joyce
Posey’s house and you
might end up with flowers
and ivy painted all over
you.
After discovering painting
teacher Donna Dewberry
three years ago, Posey has
taken her brush to most of
the walls of her home. The
only thing she hasn't paint-
ed is the cream colored
Corvette her husband Jim
Posey gave her for the cou-
ple’s 20th anniversary.
In November she traveled
to Orlando, Fla. for certifica-
tion as an instructor in the
One Stroke method
Dewberry pioneered.
Now she is opening
Posey’s Pretties school and
studio.
“I love it (painting.) I just
want to share it,” she said.
Posey believes God led
her to Dewberry. Three
years ago she caught the last
few minutes of a PBS special
featuring Dewberry.
Watching the art teacher
paint a candle, Posey was
struck by how serene the
woman looked.
“I was drawn to her,” she
said.
Before long, Posey bought
paint and a sketch pad.
Then she discovered
Dewberry’s books and
videos.
Three months later, Posey
was diagnosed with breast
ATR
The sofa is easily converted
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cancer. As she healed from
surgery and underwent 33
radiation treatments, Posey
used painting as therapy. It
kept her mind off her health.
The stretching to paint bor-
ders and a fence helped her
stay limber after surgery.
At the end of radiation
therapy, Posey’s doctor dis-
covered another lump.
When he telephoned with
the results - the lump was
benign - Posey painted faux
rugs on her bathroom floor
to celebrate.
Since then Posey has con-
tinued to paint. A wheelbar-
row of flowers appears on
the hallway wall. On the
inside door of her laundry
closet is a dress and hat on a
clothesline. Another closet
door opens to reveal a paint-
ed scarecrow.
While her now deceased
mother painted ceramics
and used the Bob Ross
method for years, Posey
never picked up a brush,
though watching the
woman paint may have
sown the seeds of interest.
In Posey’s dinning room,
apples hang from a mural.
On the center of the wooden
table is a bowl of bright red
ceramic apples her mother
painted. In a sense, mother
and daughter decorated the
room together.
Posey sells painted trays,
glasses, ornaments, trash-
cans and other household
items. In addition to teach-
ing, she hopes to paint
murals in clients” homes.
Posey recently left her job
as an assistant supervisor at
Honeywell to open the stu-
dio and school. She says the
company was good: to work
for but she knew it was time
to go in another direction.
“I never hesitated about
quitting,” she said.
Before encountering :
Donna Dewbéfry, Posey | |
only doodled. Three years
later she is convinced if she
can learn to paint anyone
can.
“It’s all in how you hold
the brush and if you really
want to,” she said.
The One Stroke method
can be used on almost all
surfaces including plastic,
glass, cloth, paper and rocks.
Morning and evening
weekday classes begin
March 1. For more informa-
tion, call 704-739-1276 or
704-813-5217.
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