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    Sketch Me If You Can: From a 40 Year Collection of Sketchbooks
    Sketch Me If You Can: From a 40 Year Collection of Sketchbooks
    Sketch Me If You Can: From a 40 Year Collection of Sketchbooks
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    Sketch Me If You Can: From a 40 Year Collection of Sketchbooks

    By Ernest W. Abernathy

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    Travels through the life of Ernest Abernathy have taken him through forty-three different countries, four oceans, nine seas, deserts, swamps, Arctic ice, the Alps, diverse fields and forests, and included a myriad of blue-collar jobs such as ditch digger, common laborer, lumberjack, circus worker, milkman, typist, trucker, postman, landscaper, security guard, dock loader, as a physician, and as a soldier. As a combat surgeon for the 82nd Airborne, he was awarded a Bronze Medal by the U.S. Army. He often had a sketch book along.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 20, 2010
    ISBN9781452078724
    Sketch Me If You Can: From a 40 Year Collection of Sketchbooks
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    Ernest W. Abernathy

    To become a doctor, Ernest Abernathy worked a myriad of blue-collar jobs, earned a Kentucky Wesleyan College degree in chemistry, Emory University Medical School M.D. Graduate work at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, L.S.U.'s Charity Hospital, and University of California Affiliate made him into a board Qualified General Surgeon. He did cancer research and clinical research of virus illnesses. As a combat surgeon with the 82nd Airborne, he was awarded a Bronze Star. More than 7,000 hospital surgeries and 688,000 office visits attest to his dedication to this fellow man. His travels include forty-three countries, four continents, four oceans, swamps, and deserts. He produced concerts with country artists like John Anderson, Deena Carter, BR-549, and jazz artists like Spyro Gyra. His paintings are held in private collections in twelve states and nine countries. Ernest and Mary were married in Gibraltar and now reside in St. Petersburg and Atlanta.

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      Sketch Me If You Can - Ernest W. Abernathy

      Contents

      Disclaimer:

      Author’s note:

      Acknowledgements

      Chapter 1

      Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Variety

      Chapter 2

      Hampstead, London

      Chapter 3

      Paris, Venice, London

      Chapter 4

      Beach Scenes

      Chapter 5

      Mexico, Boats, Spain

      Chapter 6

      Clown, Picasso, Jacksonville

      Chapter 7

      Horses, Colorado

      Chapter 8

      Variety

      Chapter 9

      Manuel, Elephant, Africa

      Chapter 10

      Terelak, Wine Glasses

      Chapter 11

      Shrimp Boats, Switzerland

      Chapter 12

      Variety

      Chapter 13

      Scotland Girl, Variety

      Chapter 14

      Switzerland, Variety

      Chapter 15

      Brenda, Variety

      Disclaimer:

      Reviewing and re-discovering these forty years or more of my sketches has revealed to me a loss of my ability to recall exactly the original circumstances under which some of the drawings came to be, especially those in the older sketch books. Should there be any similarity between any of my images to work done by others, it is happenstance and by no means done with intent, being merely and totally coincidental..

      Author’s note:

      Travels through the life of Ernest Abernathy have taken him through forty-three different countries, four oceans, nine seas, deserts, swamps, Arctic ice, the Alps, diverse fields and forests, and included a myriad of blue-collar jobs such as ditch-digger, common laborer, lumberjack, circus worker, milkman, typist, trucker, postman, landscaper, security guard, dock loader, as a physician, and as a soldier. As a combat surgeon for the 82nd Airborne, he was awarded a Bronze Medal by the U.S. Army. He often had a sketch book along.

      This collections of drawings is mostly from his sketch books which

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