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I agree.MiiniiimiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiyirii Page 3X relax." Skelton usually does his painting in his Palm Springs swimming pool, chewing on a cigar he never smokes and dipping his brush into the pool water "If there's one thing painting has taught me," he grins, "it's that oil and water don't mix...You ought to see the pool after one of my painting sprees. It's an olympic-size palette!" It's not unusual for Red to get the urge to paint about midnight and for several hours he takes himself out to the pool to create. When he's finished he puts the painting by wife Georgia's bed waiting to hear her criticism the next morning. A typical note from her might read; "It's very good" or "The eyes are a trifle too bulgy0" When the heart of what he's trying to express on canvas escapes Red, he 11 put it aside. Ive got eight or ten canvases that I haven't worked on in a year, he says. "I go on to something else and hope that what was , wrong with the other^will eventually come to my mind#" y Mrs. Skelton is an artist in her own right, a graduate of the Art Renter School in Los Angeles, and it is she who encouraged herk husband to take up painting fifteen years ago. It's just in the last year^however,that Red has worked steadily at painting, with forty canvasses to his credit during thjSS time. "The paintings take me anywhere from an hour and a half to three hours," the clown reveals with more honesty than most painters who assure you that each canvas took months to complete. Some of Red's paintings are still lifes of fruit and flowers, others are of animals and one especially outstanding work shows a charming little French town wnich he first modeled from his supply of cigar boxes. However, the majority of his work S$ appropriately enough, of clowns. Some of his finest paintings are those patterned on real life clowns such as Paul Jerome, Bozo Snyder, Felix Adler and Lou Jacobs.