Vets to create art for West Tennessee Veterans Home
Guided by artist and gallery owner Ephraim Urevbu, Spencer, 55, other veterans and their loved ones will produce art displayed and sold at auction on Veterans Day to raise money for the West Tennessee Veterans Home.
'I am what you call art stupid. I can't even paint by numbers,' said Spencer, who spent 27 years in the army and served in combat in the Balkans conflict and wars in the Middle East.
However, Urevbu has told him not to worry.
'Certain images, those certain things, we can transpose and put on canvas, bringing our thoughts, our experiences and life events onto the canvas with images and colors,' Spencer said 'It doesn't need to be a Thomas Kinkade work of art. It will still be art in the sense of it was done and how it was done and who it was done by.'