Enhancing wood's beauty

Ever wonder what the customer who spends time scrutinizing the panels of plywood, selecting and rejecting, does with the choice piece he carries away?

One wood afficionado, Louise Forbes of La Crescenta, Ca., has a very unusual use for panels of ash or birch. Fascinated by wood grain, she uses it as an inspiration for oil paintings of nature and wild life. Guided by the designs she discovers in the natural grain, she paints in overlaying transparent glazes creating an intricate relationship between the wood and the subject.

With a background in commercial art, she has designed collector plates and stain glass, teaches oil painting and calligraphy, and is an art-iuror.

Her husband. John Forbes, an executive with Union Pacific Railroad, creates original frames for her work.

A Growth Decade

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Tactics to Battle Recession

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RAILROAD'S BULLISH

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