June 2002     Vol.3 Issue 6

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Ten-year-old Eric Mullis is another Celebrity Artist at Spoede School. He's a 4th grader.

His painting of a tennis player in action has a style that reminded his art teacher, Jim Boland, of that used by the famous sports artist Leroy Neiman.

Eric said he'd done a lot of art projects when he was younger. But, he added, "I hadn't drawn all that much."

He said his painting was with acrylic paints on paper. Some of the paint was pre-mixed. But, he said he made his own shade of green. "I mixed yellow and blue paint. Then, I'd add a little more yellow and a little more blue until I got the grass color I wanted," he said.

He said his family also has the framed picture in its family room. They ordered eight T-shirts. One for each of the four family members and "one for my best friend, Greg Wilhelm." The other three are for grand-parents.

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