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Page 7 / IntroductionMy mother and father and me in the park. I’m happy. Things will change in four years. I’ll have to share their attention and affection with a brother. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 23Mom, Saul, and I with Grandpa and his touring car, a convertible with ever-seductive details. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 17Mom and Dad courting. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 19The Family. Dad and I in high-top shoes. My father had flat feet, so I had to wear orthopedic shoes. The logic seemed flawed to me; however, parental anxiety supersedes reason.-Excerpt from Painted Memories.Copyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 13The Three Cigars. Dad Three Times. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 27Me twice in Bayport, L.I. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 47The military Touster’s. Ensign Saul and Privates Dad and Me. Four-years-olds Manny and I play soldier. I’m giving the salute. -excerpt from Painted Memories
Page 41Mom and Dad in their cruise mode. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 51Six Sauls on 52nd Street, Brooklyn -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 43Penn State College. Norma and I jaunt together. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 59Three Mes; Sculptor. Painter. Potter. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 65Fire Island, the beach. The five kids on the right are all Josh, the rest are David. Sondra is the mother in red. -excerpt from Painted Memories
Sondra bathing the boys. She did that often. I think it was aqua therapy. -excerpt form Painted Memories Copyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 57My in-laws Dolly and Manny, with the kids. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 63Fire Island on the deck. Me and David. Murray and Danny.I built the deck in one hot weekend. I learned two thing in the building, how to build a deck and never to build one again.”-excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 4929 West 36th Street, Manhattan. The Cinderella Gang. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 69Cheryl and I kiss at our wedding. Josh takes pictures. David with long hair is bored. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 711970. Mom’s in front of the newly purchased house, Woodstock. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 73The Millstream Motel crowd. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 75The boardwalk at Long Beach. Manny, David with his new goatee, Doris and Kathy. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 77At Renge-Join monastery with Kathy, her mother and father, daughter Hanna and grandson Zach.My biggest disadvantage of being at one with these remarkably polite people was my dislike for seafood, seaweed, soy sauce and sticky rice. In the three weeks we were in Japan I lost fourteen pounds. Even McDonald’s Big Macs tasted of the ocean. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 79The barn at Woodstock with me, Accountant, showing off his first trout, and Kathy. -excerpt from Painted MemoriesCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 65- Painting and Snapshot ProcessTouster used sections of 7 snapshots, of his wife and kids on the beach in Fire Island, to put together this paintingCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 23- Painting and Snapshot ProcessTouster used sections of 3 snapshots from his childhood (only 2 are shown), to put together this paintingCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
Page 69- Painting and Snapshot ProcessTouster used sections of 3 photographs from his 2nd marriage wedding reception to put together this paintingCopyright © 2020 Joshua Touster
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