CathyNaysayers and Gnomes: Bill Perkins
September 19th 2010 14:56
Strange Reverie by Bill Perkins
Stumptown Lodging by Bill Perkins
Game Triangle
This is a whimsical illustration showing 3 little gnomes playing miniature cards as a competitive patience 3-way card game such as Kings In The Corners cards. A curious kitty watches on behind the flowers and grass there too with complete fascination above the mushroom table of cards just a stones throw away.
The 2010 Artist-bio & Resume of Bill Perkins
ABOUT BILL: Bill believes that the little person inside of us needs to be formed and cultivated as in his gnome poems and fantasy art illustrations of them as such too! Many of his art works feature them too. See: The Hillsboro Argus online for the July 30th, 2010 “Gnome Man” story?
THE POET’S CORNER: Bill writes poems now & then. Here is a completed one for your own perusal:
Card Menagerie By Bill Perkins ©2006
In a double suits game, Blood and line of fame,
The plays are the same, Grand and polished in all games,
As red-on-red pairs, The doubled sets of kin,
In laid out suits shared. Art and cards may yet win!
Solitaire and competitive patience, So double suits are a pleasing style,
With black-on-black changes, And certainly so worth the while:
Are admitted as quite rare, Diamond on Heart or Club on Spade,
But for double suits spare! Is how the match is always made! NOTE: Featured in Whose Who of Poetry 2007
HIS EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND OF TRAINING:
Bill Perkins is an honors graduate of PCC Sylvania from the Technical Arts program in 2008. He later studied also 1st year of Architectural Drafting to earn his 1st year pass for the program. As a double AAS student he also undertook a two-year General Studies degree and he has several PCC credits from microcomputer applications classes as a long time ongoing student there.
HIS MANY & VARIED EMPLOYMENT, POETIC & ARTISTIC 2007-10 HONORS:
Twice was Employee of the Month for Kitchen work & more at WCCC Comfort Zone.
Also gained 2 Editors Choice Outstanding Achievement Awards for his poems of “The Garden of An Elven Spell” ‘07 and “Where are the Gnomes” ’08 from poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry. His poem titled “Card Menagerie” was featured as an accepted writing in the International Who’s Who of Poetry for 2007 too. A few poems were featured as some dialogues on a disc entitled “The Sound of Poetry” by poetry.com and the poem listed as first above was published in their anthology named “Immortal Verses”. Chosen as the Artist of the Month for June, 2007 by Hillsboro, Oregon. 3rd Place in a Fine Art America contest in 2009.
HIS PUBLICATION ON DOMINOES & CARD GAMES FOR ITS ARTS & STUDY:
Dominoes Plus is that big 256-page book on classic games & some new good ones by iUniverse Publishers in 2001: available at www.bn.com, www.amazon.com & www.dominoes.com now.
HIS OTHER RELATED ART PRODUCTS FOR SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC:
1) The Gnome-Poem Series of his 8 different cards, each are blank inside too/$4.00 ea.
2) The Art of Bill Perkins a coloring book for adults & many more too/$10.00 ea.
3) 7 different original 5” x 7” cards from FAA - they are legal for posting too/$5.00 ea.
UPCOMING: Bill wants to sell more copies of his art works & get published a book of poems and a story line sometime later titled “1-2-3 Gnomes” He is also now working on his original Bingo board system christened “Bingo Card Bingorama” that is based on classic playing cards!
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