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Debra Sue Waters combines love of painting, horses Debra Sue Waters of Millsap was named Weatherford Art Association's top artist for the month for April. Her painting "The Wild One" was inspired by a photograph of a buckskin horse running toward the camera, surrounded by dust. "I didn't want to plagiarize the work, so I took pictures of my own horse 'Sparky,' who is a bay and doesn't even have a long mane," she said. "I made the painting up as I went along using him as my primary model." Waters has a degree in Interior Design, but teaches horseback riding for a living. "I travel all over the country teaching, so I don't have as much time to paint as I would really like," she said. "I can't complain since I get to go to some fabulous places at someone else's expense." Waters said she has always drawn and is mostly self-taught. "The internet has some great re-
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Debra Sue Waters with her painting ‘The Wild One,' which is currently on display at Doss Heritage and Cultural Center.
sources for artists," she said, "and I spend a lot of time in airports and on planes killing time on my computer watching online art demonstrations." Debra and her husband Ken have two daughters, Ashton and Amanda. "We love living here in Parker County," she said. " I feel very blessed to be able to combine my love for horses with my love of art." The Weatherford Art Association will sponsor an art contest at this year's Peach Festival.
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