Paintings of H. Grant Stephens

My grandpa never really had much time for hobbies except for maybe a little fishing. When he got older, someone gave him a little paint by number set to try, but it frustrated him. The spaces were so small, his hands were large, and then the picture did not look right to him. He ended up using the paints in the set to create a picture of his own. Around that time, he and Grandma came to our house to spend a couple of weeks with us. Grandpa started painting on anything he could find...a piece of notebook paper, a piece of cardboard...whatever he scavenged up to use, so Mom went to the store and bought him some pieces of canvas board to paint on. His work evolved over time, but here you can see pictures of some of the things he painted at first. I would guess most of these were done between 1961-1963. I think many of his subjects were copied from calendars.