Nancy Haynes was one of
the three major volunteer painters. She has had decorative painting training
and is very good in painting wildlife and animals. She has painted many
of the horses, rounding boards and scenery panels.
David
Caldwell worked on the carrousel project beginning in about 1995. He
worked both part time and full time for the project and on the City Park
Maintenance staff. The horse above is the third new horse for the carrousel
that David carved. It is beautiful and quite an accomplishment.
Nancy Haynes
Nancy Haynes was one of
the three major volunteer painters. She has had decorative painting training
and is very good in painting wildlife and animals. She has painted many
of the horses, rounding boards and scenery panels.
Brenda Lowery
Brenda Lowery is a very
good decorative painter. She is very precise in following her pattern decisions
and has an uncanny eye for color. She painted horses and rounding boards
and chariots.
Alice Johnson
Alice Johnson also is a
decorative painter and a volunteer. Being a decorative painter means you
are taught brush control as well as drawing fine lines for trim work. Alice
painted horses, rounding boards, and scenery panels.
All three ladies have worked five years as volunteers.
Each phase of the painting was a combined effort and much discussion as
to color application and context of each piece of work that was done. Nancy
is a hair dresser, Brenda and her husband are business owners, and Alice
owned an arts and craft shop and taught decorative painting for Cleveland
Community College, adult education for twenty-two years. Alice sold her
shop in 1994.
They started painting on the carrousel project in
1992 and have well over 6000 hours, collectively on the project. Also involved
in volunteer painting were Geary Sloan, Darlene Godfrey, Jerry McGinnis,
Phillip Lovelace, Elizabeth Vinesette, Jerry Gantt, Linda Ferree, Judy
Hall, Lynn Ledford, Sara McNeilly, Barbara Crider, and Selvia Brown.
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