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Thank you everyone, for everything you did for my mother, Reba McDonald. I also wanted to let you all know that while she was on Artwanted, she really enjoyed getting to know other artists and that she was always talking about her friends from AW from all over the world and that artwanted gave her a huge joy and gataway in her last few years of her life that she was not well. I am forever thankful that you gave my mother the opportunity to make so many wonderful friends through AW, and ofcourse the friends who loved her and whom she loved so much. Thank you very much for giving her that joy and smiles everyday as those things made our family very happy that she was very happy. My family is in huge sadness rightnow, to lose one of our beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Everyone who she touched seemed to really enjoy knowing her, and believe me, it was the same for my mom and she really enjoyed and loved knowing you and being part of a wonderful group of very close people.

Dec. 16th **** ~ Jan. 16th 2010

Born in Nova Scotia, Canada. While attending high school in Louisburg, N.S., she won an art scholarship. Due to her family's moving to the mainland of Nova Scotia, her best friend received the scholarship instead of her. From Nova Scotia, she worked in Toronto where she attended Danforth Technical School-at night time, to study portrait drawing. Here, she learnt charcoal. After marrying an Anglican Priest in Toronto, she and her husband moved to Victoria, B.C. She lived there for two years where their two oldest children were born. From there, in 1959, they moved to Japan as missionaries. When her family was completed, the children numbered eight, four boys and four girls. Two of their boys are adopted.

She taught English in a Japanese university for about thirty years and did not have much time to do anything about her art. After retiring from her teaching job at the university, and all of her children maturing, she was inspired by Bob Ross and his "Joy of Painting," and knew that she had to try it. She has been enjoying oil painting for seven years now. She remembers throwing her first painting away, not knowing that she could paint over her mistakes. Her paintings were exhibited at several art shows in Japan, of which one was sponsored by the Canadian Embassy, theme, "Think Canada." Although her last name is McDonald, she signs her paintings Watson.

She has now moved back to Vancouver, B.C. Canada where her four daughters live. She will be settleling down at her new place at the end of this year, and is looking forward to painting this beautiful place she calls home.

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